2012 Domaine Robert Chevillon Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Vaucrains 1er Cru
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Typically the slowest-evolving wine in the Chevillon cellar, the 2012 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Vaucrains is surprisingly approachable at age 10 years of age, offering up attractive aromas of plummy fruit, vine smoke, warm spices and forest floor, followed by a medium to full-bodied, supple and seamless palate of admirable concentration and persistence. It's just entering what will surely be a long drinking window.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Tasted blind at the annual "Burgfest" tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Nuits St Georges 1er Cru Les Vaucrains has a very lifted bouquet with cranberry and wild strawberry aromas shooting from the glass, very focused and perhaps more citric than Thibault Liger-Belair's Vaucrains 2012. The palate is medium-bodied with supple ripe tannins, plenty of red cherry and strawberry fruit, slightly metallic and spicy towards the finish that tapers in slightly and leaves you wanting more. There is good tension here but it needs to develop more flesh and depth and if it does it will certainly merit a higher score.
Red-ruby. Superripe, liqueur-like aromas of dark cherry, menthol, mocha, chocolate and earth; today the fruit is in the background. A major mouthful of very rich dark berry and spice flavors but this huge, deep, very ripe wine is totally unevolved today. The tannins are substantial but even and the slowly mounting finish saturates the palate. But I can see this big boy needing a long time to lose some of its baby fat and come into focus.