2015 Nuits St Georges Les Vaucrains
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The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Vaucrains 1er Cru has a slightly reduced bouquet of raspberry, crushed strawberry and pressed flower scents that become more accentuated with time. The palate is very well balanced with fine tannin, very good acidity. Poised and full of energy, although it still cuts away a little swiftly on the finish. There is a potentially great wine here, but it is certainly not faultless. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.
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The 2015 Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru les Vaucrains reveals excellent potential, wafting from the glass with a reticent bouquet of creamy red and black fruit, dark chocolate and squab. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, powerful and deep at the core, its imposing chassis of fine-grained tannin already beginning at clamp down on the finish, its acids positively racy. For all the Gouges' efforts to tame their wines' tannins, this is a classic Vaucrains that will demand a good decade of cellaring: patience, however, will bear dividends.
(aged in 25% new oak): Bright medium red. Subdued nose shows more red than black fruits, along with complicating notes of spices and red licorice. Wonderfully sweet, spicy and rich, with enough juiciness to give balance and early personality to the tactile, juicy flavors of raspberry, minerals and spices. Very sexy and suave on the long if somewhat youthfully imploded finish. This complete premier cru should last for a long time in a cool cellar. Despite the fact that the Gouges family picked very early in 2015, Antoine Gouges describes the wines as "very ripe but not quite candied or overripe, with the structure for a long life in bottle." He added that the estate's '15s were bottled with around 13% alcohol.