Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Poisets is drinking beautifully today, bursting with aromas of peonies, damask roses, musk, orange rind and sweet berry fruit. Medium-bodied, ample and seductive, it's a perfumed, sensual wine that's weightless but intensely flavored. I evidently hugely underrated this from barrel, as it has come together brilliantly in bottle. Best after 2021.
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Decanter
This is a gentle expression of Nuits-St-Georges from a parcel that lies just south of the town. The raspberry-scented aromas are direct and upfront, and it's bold and firm on the palate without being overblown, with sufficient concentration and a discreet tannic grip. It has the force of Nuits but without too much extraction or evident structure. Long.
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.