I purchased this bottle of the 1943 Pommard Cuvée Dame de la Charité from a very cold cellar in northern France, and it was drinking beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of plums, cassis, woodsmoke and sweet soil tones, complemented by hints of orange rind and vanillin. Medium to full-bodied, velvety and precise, it's bright and lively, with a sapid core of fruit and more than vestigial powdery structuring tannins. Likely produced without copper in the vineyards, sugar in the winery or sulfur in either the vineyards or the cellar, this is a wonderfully preserved wartime Burgundy.