Bouchaine Pommard Clone Estate Pinot Noir 2019
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Bouchaine Pommard Clone is firm and focused on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine excels with aromas and flavors of dried herbs, black fruit, and spice. Enjoy it with rosemary and garlic-infused roast leg of lamb. (Tasted: July 18, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Spectator
Well-spiced and rich-tasting, with lots of vanilla bean accents to the svelte dried cherry and berry flavors. The broad, creamy finish offers savory hints. Drink now.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Pinot Noir Estate Selection Pommard Clone delivers notes of briary blackberries and black cherries. There's less savory complexity here than in the Swan Clone bottling, but this has riper, darker fruit. It's medium-bodied, silky and fine, with gentle tannins on the finish—nothing like the structure of Pommard in its namesake appellation but with a bit more grip than the Swan.
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Bouchaine Vineyards is established in the site of the oldest continually operated winery in Carneros in the southern end of the Napa Valley. Bouchaine is dedicated to the pursuit of enticing Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, whose grapes are best suited to the climate and soils of our beautiful 100-acre estate vineyard. Located just north of the San Pablo and San Francisco Bays, the vineyard climate is directly influenced by the fog that rolls in each night, and the shallow, clay loam soils are perfectly suited to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
As early as the 1970s Carneros became known as a source of terrific Pinot Noir, and was one of the first California regions to gain such a reputation. The combination of sunny days, cooling fog and thin clay soils are tailor-made for the variety. Another factor in Pinot Noir’s prominent place here is vintners’ willingness to experiment widely. The history of the grape in Carneros is marked by continuous research into clonal variations, viticultural techniques and site selection. Careful evaluation over time has revealed a signature flavor profile as well. Complex aromas and flavors of cherry, red berry, spice, earth and cola appear time and again in Carneros Pinot Noir. To this day the appellation remains one of California’s standard bearers for the variety.