2015 Domaine Heitz-Lochardet Pommard 1er Cru Les Rugiens

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  8/2/2018 - WineAcrobat wrote: 90 Points

  This was good, but needs time. It was soft and savory, with a little tart cherry/cranberry, savory herbs, popcorn, some florals with airtime. soft body, tart finish, but easy going acid. I'm unconvinced as of right now. Maybe with time.

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  6/22/2018 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  During a Pommard dinner. Light ruby,m purplish hue even. Very young and more on the concentrated red and dark fruit than the Clos de Poutures. Very dense palate, remains elegant and light. Competent wine making here. Once the aromas, that are extremely primary now still, develop further, this will be a great Pommard. Great QPR and a clear buy for me, a Domaine on the up. 94+

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  3/21/2018 - forceberry wrote: 91 Points

  12,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite pale and youthful ruby red color with noticeable translucency. The appearance isn't as pale as Heitz-Lochardet Poutures 2015, but almost. The nose is pure and fresh with vibrant aromas of black raspberries, some earthy Pinosity, a little bit of peppery spice, a hint of cherry marmalade without sweetness and a touch of reductive smoky character. The wine feels dry and medium-bodied on the palate with quite ripe flavors of black cherries, some plums, light peppery spice, wild strawberry-driven red fruit character, a little bit of smoky and even slightly skunky reductive character, hints of fresh and crunchy blackcurrants and a green touch of leafy character. The wine is pretty structured with high acidity and medium tannins. The finish is pure, dry and moderately bitter with long and delicate flavors of rough, gravelly minerality, ripe dark blackberries, some sour cherries, a little bit of crunchy red fruits and a touch of sappy character.
  
  Compared to the other two Heitz-Lochardet 2015 Pommards we tasted (Poutures, Les Pezerolles), this wine seemed the least expressive and most serious of them all, yet also the least grippy as well with its gentle yet firm tannins. Stylistically this was more or less as light and delicate as Poutures, but less perfumed and a bit more restrained aroma-and-taste-wise. Overall a lovely wine, but perhaps a bit reductive, making this wine feel like it needs at least a handful more years before it starts to open up. I wouldn't approach the wine in at least a few years and I assume the wine will continue to develop at least for 10 years more.

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  3/3/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points

  La Paulée de San Francisco - Grand Tasting (The Fairmont - San Francisco CA): Tasting, brief note. More black, firm and backward vs Poutures just tasted. Very long and dense, even if with imperfect harmony.

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  3/3/2018 - Nanda wrote:

  La Paulée de SF Grand Tasting (Fairmont Hotel, SF CA): Big black cherry nose is brooding, but quite stuffed. Tarry, black cherry with meat and spice. A big, but tasty 2015. 92-94

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