stylish and intense flavors are equally refined with a beautifully and caressing mouth feel on the moderately complex but nicely persistent finish

(92-95)/2034+

--1997 Italian blind retrospective

Malolactic was in new French oak barrels

Heitz Lochardet, Pommard Rugiens Vintage:2016 stylish and intense flavors are(from a . 43 ha parcel in Rugiens Hauts). Here the slightly less elegant and more deeply pitched nose offers up an attractively fresh and well layered array of cherry, raspberry, violet, acacia and plenty of spice nuances. As one would expect, the medium weight plus flavors are notably bigger and more muscular with excellent power and drive on the delineated, mineral inflected and much firmer finish. This youthfully austere effort is classic Rugiens