Been a bit over a year. Nose has gorgeous blackberry and wonderful stoniness and also black cherry. Very perfumed, very vivid and very defined aromas. The nobility of Rugiens comes through. Wow the blackberry is so pure and sappy. Palate needs some time to get it together but it is all there and the balance and finesse are elite. Ripe, juicy and substantial tannins that will flesh out and succumb to fruit within an hour or three as that intense blackberry really shows vividly on the finish. Really persistent. Fantastic.
After 3 hours the nose becomes dizzying in its expansiveness and intensity but the palate is only slowly opening. Think this will better tomorrow.
Ok, at 7 hours in this is getting great. That complete seductive texture is there now along with more density of fruit.
Been a bit over a year. Nose has gorgeous blackberry and wonderful stoniness and also black cherry. Very perfumed, very vivid and very defined aromas. The nobility of Rugiens comes through. Wow the blackberry is so pure and sappy. Palate needs some time to get it together but it is all there and the balance and finesse are elite. Ripe, juicy and substantial tannins that will flesh out and succumb to fruit within an hour or three as that intense blackberry really shows vividly on the finish. Really persistent. Fantastic.
After 3 hours the nose becomes dizzying in its expansiveness and intensity but the palate is only slowly opening. Think this will better tomorrow.
Ok, at 7 hours in this is getting great. That complete seductive texture is there now along with more density of fruit.
Jan 23rd, 2022Oh so wonderful and so so classic. Stony nose. Like mega stones. Gorgeous mid season cherry. Hint of licorice. Lipstick like intensity. Haunting, ethereal. So good. Palate has just amazing fruit but needs 2 hours to get there. Unreal fruit soak, so fresh, such lift, velvety and sweet tannins. Terrific persistence and complexity. Needs a decade to get really Rugiens but so so fine.
Oh so wonderful and so so classic. Stony nose. Like mega stones. Gorgeous mid season cherry. Hint of licorice. Lipstick like intensity. Haunting, ethereal. So good. Palate has just amazing fruit but needs 2 hours to get there. Unreal fruit soak, so fresh, such lift, velvety and sweet tannins. Terrific persistence and complexity. Needs a decade to get really Rugiens but so so fine.
Dec 30th, 2020
Pommard, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, France
