Winemaker Notes
A wine with a sustained color. Lively fruitiness associated with fine licorice and plant notes underlines a wine with a linear structure that expresses harshness and freshness with an austere note.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
A rich imperial purple, this looks good and the nose suggests even better. Dark raspberry with crunchy cherry, a lick of balanced oak, very sinuous over the palate yet still a fresh finish. An excellent mix of ripeness and precision. Drink from 2029-2036.
Barrel Sample: 92-95 -
Vinous
The 2022 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Roncières 1er Cru, hit by hail in June, has a bright bouquet with black cherries, iodine and light violet aromas, taking a little time to cohere in the glass. The palate is very fine with silky smooth tannins, impressive depth, a caressing texture and more mineralité on the finish compared to the Bousselottes. Obviously, the hail had no impact here! Superb.
Barrel Sample: 93-95 -
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Chevillon's 2022 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Roncières offers up aromas of cherries and raspberries mingled with peony and orange rind. Medium to full-bodied, textural and succulent, with a creamy core of fruit framed by sweet, powdery tannins, it's a charming, gourmand wine that will offer a broad drinking window.
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.