Domaine Yvon Clerget Pommard 1er Les Rugiens 2022

(93-95) pts VinousDrinking Window 2027 - 2048The 2022 Pommard Les Rugiens 1er Cru has a taut and crisp bouquet, the 20% whole bunches neatly integrated, quite understated at first and then expanding in the glass: black cherries, briar and forest floor scents. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant, chiseled tannins. A lovely, elegant, refined Pommard, quite ferrous towards the finish that lingers long in the mouth. Superb.- By Neal Martin on October 2023(92-94) Allen Meadows - BurghoundModerate reduction is enough to overshadow the underlying fruit at present. More interesting are the rich, delicious and beautifully textured and detailed larger-bodied flavors that brim with both minerality and dry extract, all wrapped in a youthfully austere and impressively long finish. This could use better depth but more is certain to develop.Vinous' Neal Martin on October 2023:Twelve months ago, I inspected the building site Thibaud Clerget hoped would turn into a new first-floor tasting room. We