2011 Nuits St Georges Aux Argillas
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The 2011 Nuits Saint-Georges Aux Argillas 1er Cru has a rounded, generous, fruit-driven bouquet with upfront raspberry and crushed strawberry aromas laced with meat juices and brown spices. The palate is well balanced and forward in style: soft tannin, caressing in the mouth with cola and white pepper filtering through the dark berry fruit towards the finish that just attenuates slightly. Not a complex or intellectual wine, but one that gives more sensory pleasure than many of its peers. Tasted at Flint Wines Burgundy 2011 tasting.
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The 2011 Nuits-St-Georges 1er Cru Les Argillas comes from a 0.4-hectare parcel within the lieu-dit. It has a generous bouquet with wild strawberry, raspberry preserve and a touch of marmalade in the background. The palate is vibrant and lively on the entry with lifted dark cherry and black plum fruit. It exerts a gentle grip and offers a touch of spiciness on the aftertaste. This is another elegant 2011 from Tardy. Drink 2014-2021. I have met Guillaume Tardy a few times in London, but this was the first time that I dropped by at his winery on the Route Nationale in Vosne (word of warning for first-time visitors: blink and you will miss the sign.) The roots of the domaine stem from his family’s metiers for Domaine Meo-Camuzet and as Jean-Nicolas Meo regained control, the Tardy family had to effectively rebuild their own domaine. So Jean Tardy began acquiring small vineyard parcels, though never less than a plot that could regularly yield six barrels per vintage in order for them to be worth bottling on their own. Guillaume himself started working with his father in 1997 but his first vintage was 2001, after working at the Picardy Winery in Australia. His 2011s were bottled in February. Guillaume told me that he is looking for silky tannins and freshness and that neatly sums up his wines that I have praised in the past and have no hesitation in doing so again. No known American importer.
Not deep crimson, but pure fruit with some sweetness and freshness. A more grown-up sort of 2011 than many, with real structure. Well done! (JR)