Pierre Meurgey Cote de Nuits-Villages Aux Montagnes 2017
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Intense garnet color with hints of purple. There is an aromatic intensity with aromas of ripe cherry and notes of raspberry. Supple and round on the palate with well-integrated tannins.
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Located at the top of the hill in Comblanchien, at the southern end of the Côte de Nuits, Aux Montagnes rises up a steep limestone slope. Meurgey purchases fruit from 41-year-old vines for this wine, which plays well above its pay grade. It scores strawberry freshness, black-mission-fig richness and lush red-rose-scented fruit—floral and untamed, as if there’s a cool wind blowing through the fine dusting of tannins, defining the shape of the wine, clarifying its dark, perfumed beauty.
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Notes of oak have an almost lifted, ethereal character on the rounded nose of this wine. The palate has a similar glossiness that sweeps up ripe but fresh red cherry and berry in a sumptuous oak embrace. Tender tannins support that freshness, making the wine come together beautifully. The finish has a hint of tar and licorice.
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James Suckling
There’s a bright array of ripe red cherries and a fresh array of oak spices, leading to a fluid, plush and approachable palate that has supple, velvety tannins. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
Barrel Sample: 90-91
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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.”
Claiming the two famous Grand Crus, Echezeaux and Grands Echezeaux, the identity of this village, Flagey-Echezeaux, rides predominantly on the glory of those two crus. All of the village or Premier Cru status vineyards in Flagey-Echezeaux market themselves under the name of their neighbor, Vosne-Romanée.
Echezeaux Pinot noir tends be light, bright and full of finesse, whereas those of Grands Echezeaux typically have more heft and complexity.