Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Pruliers displays notes of cassis, wild plums, raspberries and grilled meats, followed by a medium to full-bodied, deep and fleshy wine that's richly layered and nicely concentrated, with juicy balancing acids. It was the least advanced wine in the cellar when I tasted it and will demand some patience.
Barrel Sample: 92-94 -
Jasper Morris
Dense purple, a little touch of reduction but it doesn’t stop some ripe black fruit notes escaping on the nose. Very satisfactory and mouth-filling, but there could there be a hint of bandaid about this reduction. Long sweet summer pudding finish. I would like to try it again after bottling.
Barrel Sample: 91-93
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.