2013 Nuits St Georges Les Cras
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The 2013 Nuits St Georges Aux Cras comes from 80- to 85-year-old vines and has a broody blackberry and raspberry bouquet, stony and reserved. The palate is succulent on the entry, sweet and playful with candied orange peel governing the harmonious finish. This has a lovely exotic streak, which is an absolute delight. Check this out.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Neal Martin, Wine Advocate
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(the yield here was just 18 hectoliters per hectare in 2013 due to the bad flowering, according to Clavelier; these vines are 90 and 75 years of age): Bright, full red. Distinctly blacker fruits on the nose than most of the foregoing samples, along with a note of crushed stone. Densely packed and sappy, with black fruit flavors complicated by a saline quality and nicely restrained sweetness. This dry, classic, tannic premier cru is still quite youthfully imploded.