2015 Nuits St Georges Les Cras
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The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges Aux Cras 1er Cru is heavily reduced and displays a touch of brettanomyces that obscures any fruit expression. The palate is sweet and candied on the entry, low in acidity, and quite animally and bretty, with a smudged finish. This wine performed much better in barrel, and given the showing of the domaine's other 2015s, I suspect this was just a misbehaving bottle. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.
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Saturated medium ruby. Utterly primary on the nose, offering very ripe but not overripe scents of blackberry, licorice and dark chocolate liqueur; totally different from the preceding Vosne-Romanée bottlings, even though this premier cru is on the Vosne side of Nuits-Saint-Georges. Lively and youthfully imploded, conveying a strong impression of energy and extract to its flavors of blackberry, crushed blueberry, dark chocolate and spices. Finishes saline, tactile and very long, with a repeating note of dark chocolate and terrific vinosity. The yield here was just 26.5 hectoliters per hectare, said Liger-Belair, who planned to bottle this wine later than usual.
The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru Aux Cras was demonstrating a lot of reduction on the nose, making it difficult to read. The palate is more representative with good density and a solid structure. It represents quite a masculine Nuit Saint-Georges with more black fruit than red, exerting a gentle grip in the mouth and blessed with a compelling saline finish. This is superb.
About the producer
Since its rebirth in 2000, Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair has quickly become one of the most highly sought-after producers in Vosne-Romanée. The most prized wine from the estate is their monopole Grand Cru La Romanée.