The 2010 Pommard opens with a big, ripe, open nose redolent of ripe red fruit, smoke, licorice and tar. The wine’s overt, intense fruit is nicely balanced by clean veins of underlying minerality. Subtle spiced notes wrap around the finish. Production was down a whopping 60% because of dead vines and overall low yields. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2025. The 2010 vintage was not especially kind to Louis Boillot. The December 2009 frost wiped out the vineyard Boillot used for his Bourgogne, so naturally that wine was not made. The Fixin yields were tiny (just one barrel) and that wine was blended into the Cote de Nuits Villages. Overall yields were down 40-50%, although some parcels were hit even harder. The Caillerets, Croix Noires and Cherbaudes were down 50% and the Pommard was down 60%. The harvest started on September 22 and lasted about a week. The wines were aged in 25-30% new oak. Malos were very slow and were not finished until September 2011, quite late even by standards of the year. On a much more positive note, the wines themselves are fabulous and deserve serious attention. Unfortunately, the 2010 Pommard Les Croix Noires and Chambolle-Musigny Beaux Bruns were too reduced to evaluate, so I will have to wait for another opportunity to taste those wines. I will report on the 2009s in the April issue. Importer: Rosenthal Wine Merchant, Pine Plains, NY; tel. (800) 910-1990

2010 年份的這款 Pommard 葡萄酒香氣熟重易于散發(fā)，香氣中帶有成熟紅蘋果、煙熏、甘草和柏油的香味；該酒濃郁的果味同隱藏其中的礦物質(zhì)味相互平衡；余味中帶有奇妙的香料味。因為葡萄樹的老死和整體的低產(chǎn)，該酒的產(chǎn)量下降了 60 %。預(yù)期成熟時間：2015 年至 2025 年。