2015 Nuits St Georges Clos des Porrets Blanc
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The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges Clos des Porrets-Saint-Georges 1er Cru has a high-toned, ostentatious bouquet that lacks the subtlety and nuance of Taupenot-Merme’s Les Pruliers tasted directly alongside. This feels a bit forced, perhaps with too much extraction in the winery. The masculine, assertive palate is medium-bodied with chewy tannin, but the finish drops away rapidly and leaves you feeling short-changed. I was shocked to discover this is from Domaine Henri Gouges and I am not completely convinced the bottle was showing correctly. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
Neal Martin
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The 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges Clos des Porrets St-Georges 1er Cru has an open and expressive bouquet with raspberry coulis, wild strawberry, orange pith and light rose petal aromas. I would just like a little more cohesion. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins and well-judged acidity, slightly confit in style with suggestions of brown sugar sweetening the finish. But harmonious and quite persistent, this is a promising Nuits Saint-Georges. (NM)
The 2015 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Clos des Porrets Saint Georges is—like the Vaucrains—already beginning to shut down, gradually unfurling in the glass with aromas of cassis, currant leaf, rich spice and raw cocoa. On the palate, the wine's fine-grained tannins take center stage for the moment, but its depth, concentration and energy are all very promising: the only missing ingredient is time.