Winemaker Notes
Serve with richly-flavored dishes, game meat or ripe cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
A deep, satisfying, red-fruited wine, this is grand cru as extreme sport, the tannins gripping and giving way through a long finish. Voluptuous in texture and powerful in its grip, this is one of the best Bouchard Aîné wines we’ve tasted.A deep, satisfying, red-fruited wine, this is grand cru as extreme sport, the tannins gripping and giving way through a long finish. Voluptuous in texture and powerful in its grip, this is one of the best Bouchard Aîné wines we’ve tasted.
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Wine Enthusiast
This is an attractive, fast-maturing wine with soft tannins, ripe fruits and a juicy, perfumed acidity. It has considerable weight and concentration, along with firm red-plum and berry flavors. It's an elegant wine that should be drunk from 2017.
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.”
The origin of perhaps the world’s very finest Pinot Noir, Côte de Nuits is the northern half of the Côte d'Or and includes the famous wine villages of Gevrey-Chambertin, Morey-St-Denis, Chambolle-Musigny, Vougeot, Vosne-Romanée, Flagey-Echezeaux and Nuits-St-Georges.
Fine whites from Chardonnay are certainly found in the Côte de Nuits, but with much less frequency than top-performing reds made of Pinot noir. The little village of Nuits-St-Georges in its southern end gave the region its name: Côte de Nuits. The city of Dijon marks its northern border.