2013 Nuits St Georges Les St Georges
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Healthy medium red. High-pitched perfume of raspberry, cranberry and spices complicated by deeper notes of smoky underbrush. Juicy, nervy, brisk and tight; this was silkier and fleshier in the barrel a year ago but is distinctly imploded today. The tart cranberry and pomegranate flavors are further sharpened by a note of rhubarb. Very intense wine, but its strong acidity and firm-edged tannins call for considerable patience.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Good deep red. Captivating perfume of red berries, tobacco, spices and minerals. Large-scaled, silky and voluptuous, boasting compelling sweetness to its flavors of red fruits, iron, coffee, tobacco, spices and game. Wonderfully sexy, pliant wine with noble tannins and terrific finishing perfume. Much easier to taste today than either the Damodes or the Pôrets-Saint-Georges. In a class of its own among this premier crus from Nuits-Saint-Georges.
This is both more aromatically complex and more elegant with its restrained, pure and beautifully well-layered nose of assorted red berries, earth, floral, game and tea scents. There is a relatively refined mouth feel to the robust yet refined middle weight flavors that possess plenty of tannin-buffering dry extract, all wrapped in a balanced and impressively long finish where a touch of wood appears. 91-93
About the producer
Domaine Faiveley is one of Burgundy’s most important wine producers. The family-owned estate, now in the hands of the seventh generation, is one of the largest in the region, with significant holdings in both the Côte d’Or and the Côte Chalonnaise.