On day one I found this not all that different from the Bourgogne, just a bit fuller and smoother but still challenging with a bitter green edge to it. So I saved most of a bottle to try the next day and it is much, much better. No more bitterness although it is still very robustly structured old-style Gouges, very marked contrast to the 2010s for example which had a ton of easy and immediate (and perhaps un-Gouges like) early appeal. Very sapid with a strong stony minerality. Chaignots is Vosne side of Nuits and sometimes tastes Vosne-like. This one doesn't. This is tough, true old-style Nuits St. Georges.
On day one I found this not all that different from the Bourgogne, just a bit fuller and smoother but still challenging with a bitter green edge to it. So I saved most of a bottle to try the next day and it is much, much better. No more bitterness although it is still very robustly structured old-style Gouges, very marked contrast to the 2010s for example which had a ton of easy and immediate (and perhaps un-Gouges like) early appeal. Very sapid with a strong stony minerality. Chaignots is Vosne side of Nuits and sometimes tastes Vosne-like. This one doesn't. This is tough, true old-style Nuits St. Georges.
Jul 15th, 2015
Nuits St. Georges, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, France
