2019 Domaine Lejeune 'Les Grand Epenots' Pommard Premier Cru Rouge

Pure Premier Cru Bourgogne Rouge 98 Point Vintage, Wine Advocate Female Owner and Winemaker Traditional Winemaking, Grapes Crushed by Foot Family Owned & Operated Since 1783 Free Shipping on 6 or More Bottles  About the Wine This family Domaine traces its ancestry back as far as 1783. For five generations Domaine Lejeune passed from aunt to niece. The Domaine takes its name from Maxime Lejeune who passed in 1864 but built the estate to over 50 acres. Today Domaine Lejeune is owned by the Jullien de Pommerol family. François Jullien de Pommerol (former enology professor at Beaune's Lycée Viticole) takes charge of the vineyard and the winemaking. Today, the winery owns about 25 acres across eight single vineyards, focused in Pommard. The quantity of wine produced from these single vineyards is tiny. The red winemaking here can only be described as traditional. Open wooden vat fermentation, one of which, encircled by 17 hoops of white birch, is the oldest of its kind in the entir