Courcel Pommard 1er Cru Les Rugiens 2012 (6x75cl)
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The fact that Yves Confuron manages to make such impressive wines at this Pommard domaine, while also running his own family estate makes you wonder at his levels of energy. This is typically aromatic and spicy, with evident whole bunch characters on the nose and palate. It's also a very ethereal Pommard, with fine tannins and a focused, mineral finish. The tannins are there, but they support rather than dominate the wine.
Drinking Window: 2016 - 2024
Review Date: 1st January 2014
Medium red, a bit less deep than the Grand Clos des Epenots. Sexy, multidimensional nose combines scents of dark raspberry, strawberry, mocha, iron, truffle, tobacco leaf and iris. Compellingly full and silky on the palate, conveying a pronounced fruit sweetness but also a firm shape and a solid mineral underpinning. Noble building tannins saturate the palate and front teeth. This wine may yet shut down in the bottle but it's wonderfully complex and satisfying right now.
Drinking Window: 2021 - 2035
Reviewer Name: Stephen Tanzer
Review Date: 1st March 2015
Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Pommard 1er Cru les Rugiens from Domaine de Courcel was showing evidence of brettanomyces on the nose that I find occludes the fruit profile. The palate is chewy on the entry, rather hollow and very bitter on the finish. I know that many people appreciate how de Courcel's wines can repay cellaring but I just could not get my head around this.
Drinking Window: 2015 - 2018
Reviewer Name: Neal Martin
Review Date: 30th October 2015