2014 Nuits St Georges Vieilles Vignes
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The 2014 Nuits Saint-Georges Vieilles Vignes has an expressive, fruit-driven bouquet with ample raspberry coulis, strawberry and cranberry scents that achieve great volume. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red berry fruit, a gentle grip in the mouth, crunchy and slightly peppery towards the structured finish. Give this a couple of years in bottle and you will have a respectable Nuit Saint-Georges.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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(a blend of four parcels, vinified with 50% whole clusters): Healthy dark red. Complex nose melds black cherry, dark raspberry, licorice and leather enlivened by notes of flowers and exotic white peach. Less sweet than the last two Côte de Beaune wines but offers a lovely silky texture and a lightly saline quality to its flavors of redcurrant and leather. Finishes with slightly dusty but ripe tannins. Good honest village wine; there are 8,500 bottles of this juice.
2.4 ha and 7,000 bottles. Vines planted from 1896-1951 in the heart of the commune. 20% whole bunch for the oldest vines. Kept in 600-litre casks. No new oak but lots of one-year-old casks. Deep crimson. A little reduced. Racy, rather delicate damson fruit. Very precise. (JR)
About the producer
Nicolas Potel is one of Burgundy’s most fascinating and talented winemakers. Burgundy born and bred, son of the legendary Gérard Potel (of Domaine de la Pousse d’Or), he sold his eponymous label and today makes wine from his own vineyards under Domaine de Bellene.