2000 Pommard

"Two thousand was very difficult," said Jean-Marc Boillot. "We waited until September 18 to pick, then needed a strict selection on our triage table. This vintage was an appropriate punishment for those who work badly, following the easy year of 1999." Boillot added that the vintage favored Beaune and Pommard over Volnay, which produced atypically tough wines in 2000 despite the shorter cuvaison carried out here. Still, he noted that even the 2000 Volnays will be rounder wines after the bottling. Boillot '99s are highly successful. Do they perhaps resemble the 1990s, I asked him. "The '99s are silky wines of great richness, but also elegance. In comparison, the 1990s are almost too structured, too robust." (Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL)