2009 Nuits St Georges

Medium red. Cherry liqueur, menthol, licorice, minerals and smoky oak on the nose. Sweet, broad and fairly large-scaled, with a saline quality to its dark fruit and violet flavors. A dense, sappy wine that will need time to integrate its sweet oak component. Finishes with dusty but fine-grained tannins. A rather feminine style of Nuits-Saint-Georges, mostly from vines in Petit Charmotte and Les Allots.