Winemaker Notes
Fruit comes from an east-facing 1er cru site that lies just on the northern border of Nuits-Saint-Georges, adjacent to the superb Aux Malconsorts vineyard in Vosne-Romanée.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
At the northern end of Nuits-Saint-Georges, next to Vosne-Romanée, this vineyard produces wines with something of the structure of its neighbor. Beautifully perfumed, the wine has rich tannins and dense black fruit. These give a sumptuous wine with richness and aging potential. Drink the wine from 2024.
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Wine Spectator
This powerful red combines ripe fruit flavors of black cherry and blackberry and a cool, stony note. All the elements are wrapped in a light cloak of oak, underscored by firm, chalky tannins. Very youthful and promising, offering a lingering aftertaste. Best from 2022 through 2038.
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.