Louis Jadot Nuits-Saint-Georges 2016
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Maison Louis Jadot produces a deeply colored powerful, full-bodied Nuits-Saint-Georges of intense color. It develops ripe, robust fruit flavors and nuances of oak in the bouquet.
It will accompany red wine sauces, marinated or roasted game, medium tasting cheeses. This wine can be kept for 12-15 years in good conditions of temperature and humidity.
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Bright cherry, currant and strawberry fruit flavors are backed by a dense matrix of dusty tannins in this compact red. Balanced, lingering with a hint of cumin on the finish. The saturated flavors are intense. Best from 2023 through 2038.
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This wine’s fruit has potent clarity, the deep red fruit-skin flavor on the spectrum between black cherry and cranberry. There’s some stemminess and a feral or fennel spice aspect, adding to the meaty, slightly rustic tannins. An intriguing Nuits to decant for rognons, or to cellar.
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Inhabiting the bottom end of the northern half of the Côte d’Or, Nuits-St-Georges is a busy, market-driven town and home to many of Burgundy’s negociants. It is also the largest town in the Côte d’Or after Beaune and contributes "nuits" to the name of Côte de Nuits (i.e., the northern half of the Côte d’Or).
The appellation itself is divided into two parts, where in the north it directly borders Vosne-Romanée, the southerly end is the commune of Prémeaux. There are no Grands Crus in this village, though it does have a large number of Premiers Crus.
The best Nuits-St-Georges Pinot Noir are layered with cherry, plum, underbrush and sandalwood. The fruit is sweet, the wine energetic, and the finish long and lush.