2017 Nuits St Georges Les Vaucrains
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The 2017 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Vaucrains 1er Cru is a little animally on the nose, quite reduced at the moment. The palate is medium-bodied with chewy tannins. There is plenty of fruit here, sweet and Vosne-like in style, although this needs more complexity and mineralité toward the finish. (NM)
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Jancis Robinson MW
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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Here too there is a note of herbal tea to the fresh, cool and nicely ripe nose of dark currant, game, violet and plenty of earth that are trimmed in discreet though not invisible wood nuances. The dense and sappy big-bodied flavors possess evident power and muscle before concluding in a youthfully austere finish that is expressly built to age. This is presently a compact and serious Vaucrains that will need every bit of 12 to 15 years to reveal all it has to offer. *Outstanding*
A little oak in evidence on the nose. Extraction trumps fruit on this wine at the moment. A little bitter on the finish. May get there but at this price I'd go for the Perrières. (JR)