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2022 Pommard, Les Rugiens, 1er Cru, Domaine François Buffet, Burgundy
- Red
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Pinot Noir
Not ready
(Drink 2027 - 2045)
- Allen Meadows
- 91-93/100
- Jasper Morris MW
- 91-93/100
- Neal Martin
- 93-95/100
- Charles Curtis MW
- 94/100
Product: 20221308846
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Description
Rugiens is one of Pommard's best vineyards, and Francois is lucky to have a plot with 100-year-old vines. It is no surprise that this is an intense wine. Initially full of red and dark fruit, it has a slightly savoury edge and an incredible length that seems endless.
Berry Bros. & Rudd
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2022
Alcohol % 13%
Maturity Not ready
(2027 - 2045)
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Full Bodied
Producer Domaine François Buffet
Critics reviews
Allen Meadows 91-93/100
From .17 ha holding in Rugiens Hauts.
An elegant, pure, and airy nose mostly reflects notes of various red berries along with spice and wet stone wisps. There is an excellent size, weight and punch to the more mineral-driven flavours that exhibit fine delineation on the tension-filled and balanced bitter pit fruit-inflected finish. This needs better depth, but the potential certainly appears to be present.
Drink 2034+
Jasper Morris MW 91-93/100
Mid purple, a delicious nose, fine depth, all in red fruit while also showing the oak at the moment. Perhaps the 2022 Rugiens is a touch lighter than expected at the back, pretty rather than super-dynamic, but delicious nonetheless.
Drink 2030 - 2036
Neal Martin 93-95/100
The 2022 Pommard Les Rugiens 1er Cru has a well-defined bouquet with raspberry, sous-bois and light floral scents. The palate is medium-bodied with a sapid entry, quite a structured Les Rugiens as it ought to be. It offers grippy, dark berry fruit laced with black pepper towards the persistent finish. Very promising.
Drink 2026 - 2048
Charles Curtis MW 94/100
Unlike some of the other wines in this cellar, the Rugiens is slightly reticent and slow to open. With time, there are currant fruit aromas with a savoury edge and hints of earth. The texture is firm, and the grippy tannins need some time to resolve. The grapes are from a tiny 0.17-hectare slice of century-old vines in Rugiens-Haut; one-third are fermented as whole clusters, and the wine is ageing in cask one-quarter new).
Drink 2027 - 2055