2024 Benjamin Leroux 'Les Rugiens-Hauts' Pommard 1er Cru

Leroux has always said that if there were one 1er Cru that would tempt him back to Pommard, it would be Les Rugiens. A new long-term contract with the same owner as the Volnay Caillerets brought Leroux back to his old stomping ground in 2017. So, once again, he is working with the same iron-rich red clay soils that he did so famously at Comte Armand. These vines (0.6 hectares covering three small parcels of 25- to 90-year-old vines) lie at the foot of Les Rugiens-Hauts, the part of the vineyard considered by many (Leroux included) to produce Pommard’s greatest wines. Deep, fleshy, inky and long, this is Rugiens for the long haul.