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Domaine de Courcel Pommard Les Rugiens 1er Cru(1999)
- Winery:
- Domaine de Courcel
- Varietal:
- Pinot Noir
- Region:
- France > Burgundy
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- red grape, pinot noir, sophisticated, fruit, harvest, black cherry, muscular, classy, complex, black
- Burghound
- Feb 15, 2002
- 93/100
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May 2008
- Gorgeous perfume of red and black pinot fruits laced with cassis, anise and buckets of black cherry pinot sap. Already quite complex yet remarkably elegant for Rugiens. Sleekly muscular, superbly elegant and displays outstanding length. This is not quite as rich as the Epenots but offers better acid/fruit balance and over all definition. Very classy juice.
- Burghound
- Issue 6, Apr 01, 2002
- 93/100
-
May 2008
- The young Yves Confuron has been at Domaine de Courcel since 1996 and during that time, the wines have gone from strength to strength, culminating in these superb examples. He reports that the Domaine's overall yields in 1999 were 38 hl/ha and sugars were so high that there was virtually no need for chaptalization; in fact, the Grand Clos des Epenots was harvested at a potential alcohol level of 14%. The methods here are designed to create wines that will age for many years yet reflect well their respective terroirs. The grapes are harvested late and there is no destemming. Bunches are transferred read more...whole into the fermentation vats, given 4 to 5 days of cold macerations with no yeast additions and the cuvaisons were on the longish side in 99, lasting a full 35 days. The élevage usually lasts 18 to 20 months in 25 to 30% new oak and since 1996, there has been no fining or filtration and none is expected in 99. All of these wines were tasted on my February visit. Gorgeous perfume of red and black pinot fruits laced with cassis, anise and buckets of black cherry pinot sap. Already quite complex yet remarkably elegant for Rugiens. Sleekly muscular, superbly elegant and displays outstanding length. This is not quite as rich as the Epenots but offers better acid/fruit balance and over all definition. Very classy juice. (hide)
- Burghound
- Issue 2, Apr 01, 2001
- 91/100
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May 2008
- The young Yves Confuron has been at Domaine de Courcel since 1996 and during that time, the wines have gone from strength to strength, culminating in these superb examples. He reports that the Domaine's overall yields in 1999 were 38 hl/ha and sugars were so high that there was virtually no need for chaptalization; in fact, the Grand Clos des Epenots was harvested at a potential alcohol level of 14%. The methods here are designed to create wines that will age for many years yet reflect well their respective terroirs. The grapes are harvested late and there is no destemming. Bunches are transferred read more...whole into the fermentation vats, given 4 to 5 days of cold macerations with no yeast additions and the cuvaisons were on the longish side in 99, lasting a full 35 days. The élevage usually lasts 18 to 20 months in 25 to 30% new oak and since 1996, there has been no fining or filtration and none is expected in 99. All of these wines were tasted on my February visit. Gorgeous perfume of red and black pinot fruits laced with cassis, anise and buckets of black cherry pinot sap. Already quite complex yet remarkably elegant for Rugiens. Sleekly muscular though not heavy with outstanding length. Very classy juice. (hide)
