Winemaker Notes
This wine's deep, sustained color is a preview of its complex aromas, which are dominated by pure fruit notes that evolve into roasted, spicy, and subtle animal nuances like musk and fur. Its rich and intricate structure harmoniously blends power and elegance. While it is a very good candidate for aging eight to fifteen years, this vintage is also captivating and harmonious even in its youth.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
Crimson purple, with a very pure nose, dense and classy while retaining its freshness. Here the fruit touches every part of the palate and is very complete with a lovely aftertaste of ripe plum and a little raspberry. Balanced and very persistent. Drink from 2030-2040.
Barrel Sample: 94-96 -
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Saint-Georges is the king of the cellar, exhibiting beautiful aromas of raspberries, blood orange, sweet spices, peonies, licorice and vine smoke, followed by a medium to full-bodied, seamless and complete palate that's deep and layered, with a vibrant core of fruit, supple tannins and a long, perfumed finish.
Barrel Sample: 93-96 -
Wine Spectator
Bright and saturated with cherry, raspberry, floral and mineral aromas and flavors, this red is graceful and intense. The compelling harmony and extended length show its pedigree and potential, while the finish is both refreshing and complex, with a lingering accent of sweet spices.
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Vinous
The 2022 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Saint-Georges 1er Cru has impressive purity on the nose. It takes a few swirls of the glass to get motoring, but there is fine delineation, quite precocious black fruit mixed with dried iris and violets. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent ripe tannins matched by a silver bead of acidity. Quite tensile, it is slightly powdery towards the finish, fanning out in a confident fashion. Give it four or five years to assimilate the oak - it's a serious and compelling Les Saint-Georges.
Barrel Sample: 93-95
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.