The 2019 Pommard 1er Cru Les Pézerolles is also very promising, unwinding in the glass with notes of plums, raspberries, rose petals and spices. Medium to full-bodied, elegant and fine-boned, it's nicely balanced, with powdery tannins and lively acids, concluding with a precise finish.

The 2018 Pommard 1er Cru Les Pézerolles opens in the glass with an incipiently complex bouquet featuring raspberries and plums married with dark chocolate, orange rind and spices. Medium to full-bodied, layered and nicely concentrated, with fine tannins and a nicely defined finish, it's a success.

The 2016 Pommard 1er Cru les Pezerolles has a divine bouquet with perfumed black cherry and raspberry fruit tinged with violet, quite Volnay-like in style and very seductive. The palate is well balanced with fine tannin, fine body, nicely weighted in the mouth if, unlike the Epenots, just missing a touch of complexity on the finish. That may well develop with bottle age so cellar this for two or three years. Three barrels produced.

There are three barrels of the 2015 Pommard 1er Cru Pezerolles this year, at least more than the paltry one or two that Mother Nature has bestowed in fallow recent years. It has a gorgeous floral bouquet with wonderful definition, equally divided between red and black fruit. It's as if it wants to compensate the shortfall in quantity with sheer quality. The palate is very pure with a silky texture, very fine tannins, charming even now with superb mineralité on the finish. Oh yes! Bon vin Monsieur Charlot.

There was only a single barrel of this last year, fortunately there is double this year. That makes only a couple of the 2014 Pommard 1er Cru les Pezerolles to go round. It has a very subtle bouquet with red cherrires, blackcurrant and a touch of pomegranate, though it seems timid compared to some of the Volnays from Jean-Pierre Charlot. The palate is silky smooth on the entry with great density, a powerful Pommard with good grip and layers of minerally, red berry fruit furnishing the long finish. Excellent.