POMMARD

2011 1er Cru Rugiens Henri Boillot

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Beaune
Village Pommard
Classification 1er Cru
ABV 12.5%
Vineyard Rugiens

Massive. Violent tannins, but the richness is al there to go with it. A bold wine with balance. Tastes very young! Henri has in both the top and lower part of Rugiens, which makes for a good balance. L&S (Dec 2012)


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Boillot's Pommard Rugiens is one of the more explosive 2011s readers will come across. Intense spice notes meld into black cherries and plums in a full-bodied Burgundy full of personality and character. It is hard to imagine the 2011 will be ready to drink before its tenth birthday, as the wine is tightly wound and far from fully expressive. Licorice, menthol and cloves are some of the notes that inform the huge, structured finish. This is another wine for the cellar. Drinking range: 2021 - 2036 Rating: 93 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Mar 2014)

Good bright, deep red. Redcurrant, pepper, iron and earth tones on the nose, lifted by a suggestion of dried flowers. Reticent today but showing outstanding vinosity to its soil-driven flavors of redcurrant, spices, licorice, pepper and underbrush. Best today on the very long, floral back end, where the firm tannins currently clamp down on the wine's fruit. This youthfully medicinal wine is tighter than the Volnay premier crus here and in need of a good seven or eight years of cellaring. Incidentally, Sebastien Boillot describes the family's 2011s as less charming than the '10s and '12s and believes that they will need long aging. Rating: 92 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Mar 2014)

(from equally sized parcels in both Rugiens Hauts and Bas that measure ~1 ha). A brooding, introverted and cool nose of ripe and fresh liqueur of dark berries and wet stone nuances introduces detailed, ultra-intense and powerful large-scaled flavors that are supported by very firm yet relatively fine tannins before culminating in a classy and gorgeously complex finish. There is excellent size and weight and like the Caillerets, this is really very impressive. 2023+ Rating: 93 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Apr 2013)

Henri Boillot

Henri Boillot complements his domaine wines with a small range of négociant wines of superb quality in very limited quantities. A few of the whites are offered here - an opportunity to buy some of Burgundy's rarest appellations from a top source.

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