2017 Nuits St Georges Les Pruliers
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The 2017 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Pruliers 1er Cru shows some acetone on the menthol-like nose and lacks real complexity. The fleshy palate is medium-bodied, clean and pure, with supple tannins and perhaps just a little too much new oak on the finish. If that is subsumed with bottle age, this might deserve a higher score, though it does seem a bit monotone. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2017 tasting.
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Neal Martin
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Early malo and so bottled early too. Deepish cherry red. Ripe, sweet, dark fruit, more damson than red fruit. Sweetly ripe with a dash of spice. Finest of tannin texture bringing elegance to the dark fruit. (JH)
The 2017 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Pruliers 1er Cru offers intense black cherry, boysenberry and blueberry on the ripe, candied, generous nose, becoming more floral with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red and black fruit laced with blood orange and spices. Quite dense and grippy, this is another Gouges 2017 that will require several years in bottle.