Domain De Montille Pommard Les Rugiens Bas 2019 Bottle (75cl)
The 2019 Domaine Hubert de Montille Pommard 1er Cru Les Rugiens Bas is a red Burgundy wine from the Pommard appellation, made exclusively from Pinot Noir. This cuvée comes from the Les Rugiens Bas climat, classified as a premier cru, where the estate farms two plots totaling 1.02 hectares. The name Rugiens refers to the red clays rich in iron oxides found in this sector of Pommard.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Pommard
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Hubert De Montille
- Parcelle / Cru
- Les Rugiens Bas
- Millésime
- 2019
Domaine Hubert De Montille
Domaine de Montille is a family-run estate based in Volnay, in the Côte-d’Or, whose vineyards now extend across the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits. Owned and managed by Étienne de Montille, it cultivates 37 hectares, predominantly in Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards, across appellations such as Volnay, Pommard, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet and Vosne-Romanée. The estate, historically associated with Volnay red wines, has also been producing white wines since the incorporation of the Château de Puligny-Montrachet vineyard.
- Owner
- Étienne de Montille
- Maître de chais
- Brian Sieve
- Surface (ha)
- 37.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- environ 180 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The estate’s origins date back to the 1730s, when the Chauvelot de Chevannes family, who owned vineyards, settled in Volnay. The estate took the name Domaine de Montille in 1863, following the marriage of Marie Éléonore Chauvelot de Chevannes to Étienne Joseph Marie Léonce Bizouard de Montille. In the 19th century, the estate comprised around 30 hectares of vineyards in the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits. However, the consequences of the phylloxera crisis and a series of sales reduced the estate’s holdings to around 2.5 hectares by the end of the Second World War. Hubert de Montille took over the estate in 1947 and set about gradually rebuilding the family vineyard, whilst producing and marketing his wines himself rather than selling the grapes to wine merchants. His son Étienne joined the estate in 1983, before becoming co-manager and head of winemaking in 1995, the year in which the transition to organic farming began. He took full charge of the estate in 2002 and subsequently expanded the vineyard, notably through the acquisition of plots in the Côte de Nuits between 2003 and 2005. In 2012, the estate acquired the Château de Puligny-Montrachet, adding around 15 hectares of white grape vineyards to its holdings. The vineyard now covers 37 hectares, and winemaking is overseen in the cellar by Brian Sieve, the cellar master, with Jacques Montagnon responsible for the white wine production processes.
Les Rugiens Bas
Les Rugiens Bas is a climat officially classified as Premier Cru of the Pommard appellation, located on the southern slope of the village territory, towards Volnay. It occupies the lower part of Les Rugiens, below Les Rugiens Hauts, at an altitude of approximately 260 to 275 meters and on a slope of 6 to 10%. Its red, stony, clay-silt soils rest mainly on the Calcaire de Ladoix, a Middle Jurassic formation locally affected by dolomitization.
- Vineyard commune
- Pommard
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name "Rugiens" derives from "rouge" (red) and refers to the reddish color of the soils, linked to their high iron oxide content.
- Exposure
- East to south-east
- Altitude
- 260–275 m
- Slope
- 6 to 10%
- Soil
- Quite red clay-silt soils, rich in iron oxides, with stones and abundant limestone slabs.
- Subsoil and geology
- Callovian Calcaire de Ladoix, locally marked by dolomitization.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 1.020000 ha
- Vineyard holding status
- Owner of two plots
Histoire de la parcelle
Les Rugiens Bas were entirely ranked as first class in the statistical vineyard plan established in 1860 by the Committee of Agriculture and Viticulture of the arrondissement of Beaune and published in 1861. Today, the climat is one of the 28 climats entitled to bear the Premier Cru designation within the Pommard AOC, recognized in 1936.
