2001 Nuits St Georges Les St Georges
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Saturated ruby-red. Explosive, complex, sappy nose melds dark berries, cocoa powder, minerals, leather and spices. The densest and most concentrated of these 2001s, with compelling purity of flavor and class. But this extremely primary wine quickly went into a shell in the glass. Finishes with big, tongue-coating tannins and subtle lingering sweetness. This really calls for a good eight years of cellaring.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Bright, deep ruby-red. Pure red and black fruit aromas complicated by notes of licorice, bitter chocolate and violet. Compelling sweetness framed and intensified by perfectly integrated acids. Thick and full yet sharply delineated and light on its feet. Really expands in the mouth and lingers on the back end. Complex and aristocratic. The deepest and longest of the Gouges 2001s, and a compelling example of the vintage. A good argument that this premier cru can produce wines of grand cru quality. Here, too, the yield was just 33 hectoliters per hectare.
Jonnson mentions he has a few reds that aren’t on the list, including the 2001 Gouges Les Saint-Georges. That’s another obvious Yes! I absolutely adore the Gouges wines, especially with some bottle age. Two thousand one is a vintage of reticent, tightly wound Burgundies that have been slow to mature. Frankly, I thought the 2001 Les Saint-Georges would be a bit more forward. Instead, it is bright, aromatically intense, and super-structured, with even more youthful intensity in its red-toned fruit than I expect. Readers who own it should be positively thrilled. What a wine!