2014 Nuits St Georges Les Chaignots
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Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2014 tasting, the 2014 Nuits St Georges 1er Cru les Chaignots has a vivacious, open and generous bouquet lavished with black cherries, cassis and wild strawberry fruit that is succinctly interwoven into the new oak. The palate is medium-bodied and quite sumptuous on the entry, more primal than its peers with plenty of black cherry and strawberry fruit, a fine thread of acidity and a very pure finish. It still has a long way to go, but this gutsy Nuits-Saint-Georges from Marie-Christine and Marie-Andrée at Mugneret-Gibourg has potential. Tasted September 2017.
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Neal Martin
Richard Hemming MW, jancisrobinson.com
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Brilliant clarity to the fruit, but less firmness than is typical for Nuits-St-Georges. A watercolour version of an oil painting. (RH)
(40% new oak): Healthy dark red. Aromas of strawberry, cherry and redcurrant come across as less floral but more oak-spicy than the Vosne villages . Fatter and sweeter in the mouth; a nicely silky midweight with a hint of menthol currently suppressing the red fruits. Showed increasing floral perfume with air but with somewhat dusty tannins this doesn't quite come alive today.