Pommard Grands Epenots, Domaine Michel Gaunoux 2011

This remains quite fresh with its elegant, pure and broad-ranging nose of red currant, violets, plum and earth-suffused aromas. The energetic and relatively refined middle weight flavors are shaped by fine-grained tannins while offering excellent length on the balanced, delicious and complex finish. This attractively refined effort is still clearly on the way up but it's not so tight that it couldn't be enjoyed now if given 30 minutes in a decanter first. In a word, lovely. Note: from a large 1.74 ha parcel