ブルゴーニュワインの中でも入手が困難なドメーヌといえば、ドメーヌ・ポンソ。
　
　ブルゴーニュはモレ・サンドニのトップ・ドメーヌであり、ロバート・パーカー氏も満点の五つ星を付ける、世界のワインラヴァーの注目を集め続けている造り手の一つです。

　徹底した収量の制限、殺虫剤の不使用、全く新樽は使わず、SO2も添加しない醸造方法など、ストイックさを極めたような造り方でこの世にワインを生み出しているのが、このポンソですが、そういったこだわりの成果が作品にしっかりと反映されているからこそ、世界中からラブコールを送られるような存在になっているのでしょう。

　グリヨット・シャンベルタンの「グリヨット」とは、「野性のサクランボ」の意味だそう。最小の特級畑であり、年間総生産量はわずか1400ケース前後だということです。
　
　そして、ポンソによる2007年ヴィンテージのグリヨット・シャンベルタンは、パーカーポイント94点の快挙作。
　ブルゴーニュ・ラヴァー垂涎の、魅力にあふれた一本ですね。

≪パーカーポイント　９４点！≫
2007 Domaine Ponsot Griottes Chambertin
ドメーヌ・ポンソ・グリヨット・シャンベルタン
ワイン種類 Red Dry Table
生産地 France Burgundy Cote de Nuits
生産者 Domaine Ponsot
ドメーヌ・ポンソ
ぶどう種類 Pinot Noir

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テイスティング2010年6月
PP（WAポイント）94
公開媒体：Wine Advocate #189 （2010-06-29）
レビュアー：David Schildknecht
飲み頃：now-2025
A striking nose of dark plum and fresh berries, bacon fat, and black tea in Ponsot’s 2007 Griotte-Chambertin has its direct counterpart on a polished, expansive, sappy palate that leads to an arrestingly gripping yet at the same time uncannily buoyant finish. Persistent smokiness, berry tartness, animal savor, palpable underlying chalkiness, and saliva-inducing salinity make for compelling complexity and inducement to take the next sip. Look for 12-15 years of excitement here, if not more. I asked Laurent Ponsot what he though were the critical factors in avoiding the prevalent pink, under-ripe grapes scattered within the clusters of 2008 vintage Pinot Noir, whose undesirable flavors were bound to have concentrated under the influence of late September wind right along with those of the properly ripe berries. “First of all,” he replied, “you had to prune correctly, which is the beginning of everything ? like being in front of a piece of wood or stone as a sculptor and beginning to carve a statue. It’s artistic ? not simply something that will determine how many grapes (you end up with). After that, you focus on working with and not in opposition to nature’s cycle. Why are we always the last in Burgundy to pick their grapes? It’s because we pick on time.” In the case of 2008, that meant commencing on the eighth of October; and Ponsot’s 2007s ? which taste as though they must come from a completely unfamiliar not to mention remarkably great vintage ? were not picked until after the middle of September. “I wasn’t sure in early tastings,” says Ponsot about his 2008s, “that all of the elements would fit together into something harmonious.” For the most part, though, they have ? at least, based on my tastings from a range of barrels in late winter. With regard to the distinctively delicious and atypical personality I discovered in Ponsot’s 2007s, readers should bear in mind that he employs some of the lowest levels of sulfur in Burgundy, so there’s no pepping-up going on here by means of dosage, which is seldom employed at all! I couldn’t help thinking as I tasted them: was this much excitement really implicit in 2007 generally and somehow the opportunity to capture it was missed at more than 90% of the addresses where I taste? Incidentally, the big news at Domaine Ponsot last year ? although, Laurent Ponsot’s choice of synthetic closures for future bottlings and his remorseless pursuit of forgers and security justifiably made headlines ? was that there will be Corton, Corton-Bressandes, and Corton-Charlemagne here beginning with vintage 2009. Importer: Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL; tel. (205) 980-8802

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2009 Domaine Ponsot Clos de la Roche Vieilles Vignes
ドメーヌ・ポンソ・クロ・ド・ラ・ロシュ・ヴィエイユ・ヴィーニュ
ワイン種類 Red Dry Table
生産地 France Burgundy Cote de Nuits
生産者 Domaine Ponsot
ドメーヌ・ポンソ
ぶどう種類 Pinot Noir

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テイスティング2011年5月
PP（WAポイント）(94-97)
公開媒体：Wine Advocate #194 （2011-05-02）
レビュアー：Antonio Galloni
飲み頃：now-2049
The 2009 Clos de la Roche Cuvee Vieilles Vignes is round, sweet and totally enveloping. It is a huge, towering Burgundy that impresses for its gorgeous inner perfume and juicy, exuberant fruit. This shows tons of richness without being heavy or overripe in any way. Anticipated maturity: 2029-2049. This set of 2009s from Laurent Ponsot was among the finest I tasted. The wines are simply dazzling from top to bottom. Ponsot was among the last to harvest in 2009, essentially starting when most, if not all, of his colleagues already had the fruit in their cellars. The fruit was 100% destemmed and the wines were vinified in oak vats. The wines were then racked into barrel for the malos, where many of them stayed with no further rackings. There is no new oak at Ponsot. The barrels range from 5 to 50 years of age. The range now includes a head spinning eleven Grand Crus, which now total an astonishing 70% of the estate’s total production. Ordinarily I would suggest cellaring the top 2009s for a minimum of 15 years or so, but now that Ponsot is bottling all of his wines with synthetic plastic corks made in Italy it is hard to know exactly how the wines will develop. I tasted all of the 2009s from barrel, where they had been aging since finishing their malolactic fermentations. Importer: Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL; tel. (205) 980-8802