Winemaker Notes
Medium red ruby in color. On the nose are ripe fruit aromas of cherries, strawberries with floral & spicy undertones. Medium bodied on the palate and well balanced. Notes of ripe fruit, flavors of cherries & plums with spices. Leaving you with a lingering finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Attractively complex blue and red fruit with leafy notes and latent spice in the background. The palate shows a very full, firm and rustic texture to the tannins. Bold with plenty of grunt. Drink over the next five years.
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Wine Spectator
Marked by ripe black cherry, blackberry and humus aromas and flavors, this red is supple and fluid, backed by a spine of chalky tannins. Shows good balance overall and fine length. Best from 2023 through 2035.
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.