We tasted this (also blind) just after the Charmes Maume (last post); this time there was no doubt for either of us we were
drinking Burgundy. The rim was bricky (even almost orange) and the wine was
relatively pale; the bouquet was somewhat farmyardy, with light, faded fruit.
The surprise (apart from it being Maume again) was that it was from a more
recent vintage, when in fact it seems markedly older. The En Pallud is from a
named vineyard (not Grand Cru) in Gevrey-Chambertin.
Slightly, this wine suffered by comparison with its
grander predecessor; the nose was
attractive,
but the body seemed thin. Certainly pleasant, but much simpler than the
Charmes. Just when we thought it was entirely settled, definitively resolved
and defined, it surprised us by moving on from a lightly manured farmyard to
being more a case of tea and faded raspberry fruit. (All quite classic
expressions of Burgundy).
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