Pommard 1er Cru "les Grands Epenots"

Pierre-Vincent Girardin launched his domaine in 2016 — at roughly 19 years old, 13th generation of a Burgundian winemaking family — and immediately broke from the extraction-heavy Pommard playbook by committing to 100% whole-cluster vinification (a practice formalised across his reds from 2021), minimal pigeage, and a cold cellar regime designed to preserve juice purity over power.

Les Grands Épenots sits on the mid-slope of Pommard's most prestigious premier cru, where Jurassic marls and marly limestones at roughly 260 m elevation with east-to-south exposure produce a firmer, more structured Pinot Noir than the lighter soils of neighbouring Volnay — yet Girardin's low-intervention hand keeps that structure silky rather than muscular.

The wine ages 12 months in standard 228-litre barrique at just 15% new oak, followed by 3 months in tank before bottling — a deliberately restrained wood regime that keeps the Épenots' iron-tinged marl character in the foreground rather than behind a veil of toast.

Bottled unfined and unfiltered, timed to the lunar calendar, with minimal sulphur additions throughout — a transparency-first philosophy that few Pommard producers apply with such consistency. The 2022 vintage delivered generous, ripe fruit across the Côte de

Beaune while retaining the freshness that Girardin's high-canopy vine training (1.60–1.70 m) is specifically engineered to protect; production per cuvée runs to approximately 1,400 bottles.