Winemaker Notes
With vines of an average age of 50 years, the Premier Cru Les Pruliers is an intense and robust wine which has a beautiful capacity to ageing.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
Being bottled today. A slightly darker colour here. There’s a good weight of a darker red berry fruit with a slight mentholated touch. The structure is more like a classical central Nuits-St-Georges, with both firmer tannins and a sound thread of acidity. The fruit continues very nicely behind. Drink from 2027-2034.
Barrel Sample: 91-94 -
Decanter
With its lovely bright black cherry fruit aromas and hints of rose petals and spice, this is an attractive, approachable wine that shows plenty of finesse from the first nose. The texture is tannic but not astringent; fresh, but not bracingly so. There is a rewarding elegance here that indicates the wine should age gracefully. The grapes come from a holding of 1.3 hectares at the southern edge of the village on soils similar to the Clos des Porrets St-Georges.
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Vinous
The 2021 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Pruliers 1er Cru has quite a heavy reduction on the nose that suppresses the fruit at the moment, but it feels well defined and time should lift that veil. The palate is well balanced with supple tannins, gentle grip and a little sapidity towards the marine-influenced finish. Give this two or three years in bottle as there is a quite delicious and satisfying NSG. here.
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Wine Spectator
This muscular red delivers a mix of black cherry, blackberry and violet flavors aligned with vibrant acidity and firm tannins. Tips toward the tannins today, with spicy, smoky elements on the long finish. Best from 2026 through 2039. 60 cases imported.
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.