2018 Pommard Les Rugiens
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Deeper and more brooding still, the 2018 Pommard 1er Cru Les Rugiens offers up aromas of ripe cherries, licorice, violets and a hint of toasty oak. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, creamy and fleshy, with a textural attack that rapidly gives way to a firm, chewy and muscular palate dominated by an abundance of tannin. Both very ripe and very extracted, this is the broadest-shouldered of de Courcel's 2018s.
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Neal Martin
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The 2018 Pommard Les Rugiens 1er Cru has an attractive bouquet with wild strawberry, undergrowth and orange rind aromas, certainly one of the best aromatics that I tasted from de Courcel this vintage. The palate is medium-bodied with firm, grippy tannins. This is quite bold with veins of dark chocolate infusing the red fruit, although I find the oak too vocal on the finish.