Francois Mikulski Pommard 2021

Francois Mikulski Pommard 2021

Francois Mikulski is in the top echelon of Meursault producers. His wines are bright, mineral, racy and incredibly fine. With a Polish name and no traditions to keep in mind Mikulski and his wife Marie-Pierre were free to create something completely new when they founded Domaine Mikulski in 1992. The most obvious result was the labels for the bottles; far from the traditional Burgundian label, Mikulski wanted a label that looked like something handwritten believing that it is what is inside the bottle that is most important.

In the vines Mikulski is a practitioner of lutte raisonnée, a system of cultivation that is essentially organic and non-interventionist. Lutte raisonnée entails holistic and balanced viticultural management with primary focus on the microbial health of the soil and the biodiversity of the vineyard.

"A slightly riper yet still wonderfully fresh nose offers up notes of plum, red currant, dark raspberry and a hint of humus-suffused earth. There is again excellent intensity to the beautifully defined medium weight flavors that exude a refreshing salinity on the sneaky long and slightly more structured finale. This is a quality Pommard villages that will need at least a few years of patience first." 89 points Allen Meadows, Burghound