Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
Fine bright but relatively translucent purple. Here the bouquet is notably fresher than the Bourgogne, on the cusp of red and black, with the wonderful bouquet of garriguette strawberries (the way they were before producers began developing much larger and less tasty ones). Joyously juicy with grace and energy and just a few tannins, before the vanillin from the oak makes a late appearance.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Nuits-Saint-Georges Village is pretty and delicate, unwinding in the glass with aromas of raspberries, orange rind, cinnamon, potpourri and woodsmoke. Medium to full-bodied, supple and layered, it's seamless and refined, with melting tannins, lively acids and a long, perfumed finish. Best After 2021
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.