The 2019 Les Perrières from Domaine Jean Michel Gaunoux represents the youngest of the three Gaunoux magnums in this batch, and in many respects the most forward: the 2019 Burgundy vintage was very warm, producing wines of generous ripeness, supple tannin and early accessibility that contrast with both the firmly structured 2018 and the long-developed 2006 also offered here. For collectors who seek a Pommard Premier Cru magnum for drinking in the nearer term while retaining real site character and the domaine’s traditional quality, the 2019 provides the accessible face of the Les Perrières lineup. The magnum format, slowing development relative to the standard bottle, ensures that even this more immediately approachable vintage will continue to develop and reward patience beyond its youthful accessibility.

The 2019 Burgundy vintage is now widely regarded as among the finest for red wines in recent memory, producing Pinot Noirs of exceptional aromatic concentration, ripe but structured tannins and a natural balance that gives them both immediate appeal and long ageing potential. For Pommard specifically, where the village’s naturally firmer tannin structure in cooler or more structured years can produce wines that require a decade before they show their best, the 2019’s warmth-derived ripeness and supple tannins have produced wines that offer genuine pleasure much earlier in their development while retaining the mineral depth and structural integrity of the site.

The three Gaunoux Pommard Les Perrières magnums in this batch, spanning 2006, 2018 and 2019, offer collectors the unusual opportunity to acquire three different expressions of the same site and producer across a range of vintages and development stages: mature (2006), structured and cellar-bound (2018), and generous and approachable (2019). For a collector seeking to build a vertical of this producer’s finest Premier Cru work, acquiring all three in the magnum format represents a genuinely compelling and rarely-available proposition.

Ruby with a generous and expressive nose of ripe black cherry, plum, iron mineral, cedar, dried rose and a warm, generous depth from the 2019 vintage conditions. Full-bodied with ripe, supple tannins, good natural acidity and a long, mineral finish of considerable Pommard character and weight. Drinking well now; best through 2040.