2006 Pommard, Rugiens, Domaine de Montille (1.5L)

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Vintage: 2006
Format: 1.5L
Wine Name: Pommard
Vineyard: Rugiens
Designation: 1er Cru
Appellation: Pommard
Producer: Domaine de Montille
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Sub-Region: Cote de Beaune
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Tasting note: The de Montille 2006 Pommard Les Rugiens – which I last tasted just before its bottling – displays site-typical rich meatiness and smoky, "ferrous" character, with abundant but reasonably fine-grained tannins and formidable grip. Dark berries and burley tobacco, peat and iodine give this a metaphorically very dark hue. It has plenty of structure, but less vivacity than the corresponding Taillepieds, and it will be interesting to see whether in the long run this proves to have more tannin that it needs to get where it's going over the next decade. I would in any event grant it a 3-4 year head start. (90-91pts. DS, Wine Advocate)

Tasted: Dec. 2009
Score: 90
Drink: 2009-2013

Tasting note: The barest touch of wood frames backward and very primary yet also very pure and high-toned red pinot fruit aromas that are distinctly cool in character while introducing delicious, intense and really quite serious flavors that possess fine dry extract levels that culminate in a firm and slightly edgy finish that belies just a subtle trace of bitterness that my score assumes will round out with time in bottle.(89-92pts. Allen Meadows aka The Burghound )

Tasted: Apr. 1, 2008
Score: 89-92
Drink: 2014+