2015 Nuits St Georges La Richemone Ultra

The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru La Richemone Vieilles Vignes "Cuvée Ultra" has another vibrant, generous bouquet with ample red cherry, cassis, crushed violet and mineral scents. It is very pure, almost sorbet-like. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy ripe black cherry and blackcurrant fruit laced with a pinch of white pepper and minerals. Like Christophe's other 2015s, it offers panache in spades, with a caressing finish that lingers long in the mouth, a residue of orange rind on the aftertaste. This is excellent.

Cask sample. Vines planted 1902. High toned. Bright bitter-cherry fruit. A little drying on the end. Sweet and rich. But with lots of (slightly drying) tension too. (JR)