Francois Buffet's 2019s
- The 17s Were Among the Best Young Côte de Beaune Collection I've Ever Had
- The 19s Blow the 17s Away
- Pure Aromatics
- A Little Bit of Sexy, Sensual Sistine Chapel
- Juicy and Utterly Delicious Even As They Are So Elegant
2019 Francois Buffet Pommard 1er Cru “Les Poutures”
- Right Below Les Rugiens
- Psychotically Complex Nose
- Mid to Late Season Black Cherries
- Wild Mint, Tree Bark, Orange Rind, Herbs and Spices.
- So Complex.
- Very Stoney Minerals.
- Palate is Stunning as Usual for 2019
- “Rugiens Neighbor” Structure in Effect.
- Stunning Purity and Compactness
- Perfect Balance even with it Being So Dense.
- So Stoney yet Elegant and Pure.
- Super Sweet Fruit
- A Wonderful Hit of Opulence in the Mid
- Structured, Stoney and Very Fresh Finish.
- Clean and so Pure.
- So Much Energy and Just Amazing Finesse
- Length Here is Astonishing
- Brilliant Sap and Concentration
- Delicate and Elegant
- Very, Very Sadly Extremely Limited
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The Incredible thing about Burgundy is how the wines are so different across the different villages and winemakers. As I think about our own 1er Cru producers in Pommard and Volnay, I love them all but they are completely different.
Brisset's wines are the most utterly precise. The palate is almost like you are drinking a liquefied
work of art.They are almost other worldy in their perfection. The precision of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
Rebourgeon's wines are at the other end. Crazily delicious, juicy mostly blackberry fruit. Yes, they are brilliantly well made and balanced with lovely aromatics, but the headline is the fruit, which is miraculous.
Pierrick Bouley's wines are so structured and muscular and take several years to unfold. Old school, in the most beautiful way. But when they unfurl, watch out - these are some of the best red wines in the Côte de Beaune.
Francois Buffet's wines are somewhat in the middle. You get that stunningly juicy fruit (cherry) that is so good you have to hold yourself back from drinking it all. One simply does not guzzle 1er cru Burgundy. But you also get that brightness. Gorgeous, almost, sexy aromatics. Pure, clean fruit with lovely florals and spice. More Michaelangelo to Brisset's Da Vinci. There is a little bit of that sexy, sensual Sistine Chapel in these wines.
I had a range of Buffet's 17s and Buffet's collection of 17s was possibly the best collection to drink young that I've had in my career. And the 19s crush them.
The 2019 Vintage in Pommard
The sun really shined on Pommard in 2019 and it’s the best Pommard vintage I’ve tasted since 2010 and before that 1999. The wines are packed with exquisite dense fruit and reek of the wonderful stoney terroir that makes Pommard to special. Cote de Beaune’s answer to Gevrey Chambertin. I’ve offered the great Pommard Rugiens from Buffet which many of you got and sadly some of you did miss out on as great Pommard doesn’t grow on trees but it grows on vines that sadly sometimes that have low yields and are affected by vine disease and all sorts of other factors. But I’ve got a good amount today of one of the final 19 1er Crus I’ll offer from Buffet.
I’m so happy that so many of you have embraced the brilliance of these wines and I can report back that the estate and Marc-Olivier Buffet are thrilled that all of you are so enthusiastic about the wines. My advice is to drink the 17s with aplomb and bury the 18’s but the 18s will eclipse the 17s in a decade I think as they have the materials but are super closed now. I think all the 19s are approachable now but there is a 40% they will close down in the next year. But they have all drunk so well during my tastings.
The Wines
Today I’m happy to sell the 2019 Francois Buffet Pommard 1er Cru “Les Poutures” for $59.99 a bottle on a 4-pack. This very underrated 1er cru that is situated right below Les Rugiens, - “Rugiens Neighbor” in that it is so similar to Rugiens. It has that finesse that great Rugiens has if a skoche less dense.
The final Buffet 19. And wow.
Gorgeous nose of mid to late season black cherries, wild mint, tree bark, orange rind, herbs and spices. So complex. Gorgeous cherry syrup as well and very stoney minerals. Nose gets so much more complete and aromatic with some air. Just expansive as can be. What focus and linearity.
Palate is stunning as usual for 2019 albeit a bit more initially structured than other 2019 Pommards I’ve had from Buffet. That “Rugiens light” structure in effect. Stunning purity and compactness and the usual perfect balance even with it being so dense. So stoney yet elegant and pure. Super sweet fruit and a wonderful hit of opulence in the mid that opens up to a structured, stoney and very fresh finish. Clean and so pure. So much energy and just amazing finesse here. Long long finish. A pitter patter. Wow.
Length here is astonishing. Brilliant sap and concentration while being delicate and elegant. Ideally wait 5 years but is certainly approachable young.
2019 Francois Buffet Pommard 1er Cru “Les Poutures” - $61.99
($239.96 4-Pack)
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