Domaine De Montille Pommard Les Rugiens 2005 Magnum (150cl)
The 2005 Domaine Hubert de Montille Pommard 1er Cru Les Rugiens is a red Burgundy wine made from 100% Pinot Noir. This cuvée comes from the Les Rugiens climat, where the estate farms two plots located in Rugiens-Bas, covering a total area of 1.02 hectares. The red clays rich in iron oxides gave the lieu-dit its name. The estate crafts a structured and deep Pommard Premier Cru here, true to the classic style of the Côte de Beaune.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Magnum (150cl)
- 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
- Millésime
- 2005
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Pinot Noir
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
Les Rugiens form a Premier Cru ensemble located on the southern slope of Pommard, on the Volnay side. It includes two officially distinguished climats, Les Rugiens-Hauts upstream and Les Rugiens-Bas downstream. The hillside is distinctly steep, with stony clay-silt or clay-limestone soils, frequently colored reddish-brown by iron oxides. The geology varies along the slope, notably with the Ladoix limestones documented in Les Rugiens-Bas.
- Vineyard commune
- Pommard
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name refers to the red color of the clay soils rich in iron oxides.
- Altitude
- 260–313 m
- Slope
- 6 to 14% depending on the part of the hillside
- Soil
- Clay-silt to clay-limestone soils, stony and rich in iron oxides, often reddish-brown.
- Subsoil and geology
- Jurassic limestone subsoil compartmentalized by faults; Ladoix limestones documented in Les Rugiens-Bas and oobioclastic limestone facies locally between Les Rugiens-Hauts and Fremiers.
Histoire de la parcelle
19th-century wine classifications already placed Les Rugiens among the major crus of Pommard: the 1860-1861 map by the Comité d’agriculture de Beaune classified all of Les Rugiens-Bas in the first class, while Les Rugiens-Hauts were divided among several classes. The historically lower-ranked portion of Les Rugiens-Hauts was only integrated into the Premier Cru in 1981. The current official nomenclature distinguishes Les Rugiens Bas and Les Rugiens Haut among the climats that can complement the Pommard Premier Cru appellation.
