An addition to his domaine this vintage, Henri Boillot’s 2008 Pommard comes from the cru Clos Blanc just west of the route nationale north of town, but he does not intend to bottle its fruit under that name: since his other domaine addition is in Rugiens, he opines that Clos Blanc should not put on airs in such company! Vivid smoked meat, with blackberry and cinnamon in the nose adumbrate a juicy, and pungently spicy and smoky palate. There is a distinct suffusion of fine-grained tannin which holds back the wine’s otherwise exuberant fruit. But one could plan to follow this for at least 6-8 years. In 2008, Henri Boillot both expanded his domaine and became ambitious qua negociant with Pinot. In the latter capacity, he looks for contracts where he can exercise control over the farming, so that, for example, all of the 2008s – he reports – were cropped at less than 20 hectoliters per hectare and picked very late. Unorthodoxly (for Burgundy, at least) Boillot pressed many of his reds early to let them complete fermentation in barrel. His malos were late but not dramatically so, finishing in August, and most of the wines were bottled in February, a few earlier. (I tasted several 2007 reds from Boillot, but too early-on to adequately assess, and I have not had time to revisit that collection.)Various importers