Winemaker Notes
This is an ideal pairing wine for regional dishes in sauce, such as ham and game meat. Its tannic character adapts to a full-bodied and spicy cuisine.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This has a very fresh, fragrant and lightly perfumed red-fruit nose with attractive cherry-biscuit aromas and a sense of real poise and polish. The palate has a very powerful yet measured feel, nicely layered tannins and powerful drive with direction. Linear. Drink or hold.
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Wine Spectator
A ripe, sumptuous red, boasting cherry, blackberry, toasty oak and sweet spice aromas and flavors. It's silky texture and balanced profile include well-integrated tannins and fresh acidity. Fruit and spice notes linger on the finish. Drink now through 2032.
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.