Domaine Catherine et Claude Marechal Pommard

Catherine and Claude Marechal are regarded in the same vein as Dujac, Carillon, d'Angerville, and others in France's most respected wine guide - La Revue du Vin de France. They just cost a lot less! Claude became friends with the late Henri Jayer in the 1980's, and to this day, the lessons he learned from this master are abundantly evident in the wines.

Their Pommard is classic in every way, shape, and form. Dense, structured, and a bit backwards at first, air and time are your friends here :) As this one opens up, it reveals wonderful notes of dark fruits, spices, iron, and forest floor. Powerful and certainly worthy of the cellar, this will come out of its shell in 2030 or so, and it should drink well through 2035, perhaps longer.