2016 Pommard Les Rugiens
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Tasting notes
The 2016 Pommard Les Rugiens 1er Cru has a very fragrant bouquet with pure black cherries, raspberry, hints of boysenberry and wild hedgerow aromas. The oak here is beautifully enmeshed. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe and bold tannins. This is an atypically flamboyant Pommard and as such, I find it dispenses with typicity in the mouth, pleasurable but missing the intellectual gravitas that this esteemed vineyard has bestowed on some of its peers. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting.
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Neal Martin
About the producer
Domaine Faiveley is one of Burgundy’s most important wine producers. The family-owned estate, now in the hands of the seventh generation, is one of the largest in the region, with significant holdings in both the Côte d’Or and the Côte Chalonnaise.