2016 Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Saint-Georges 1er Cru
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The 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Saint-Georges 1er Cru has an impressive and quite captivating bouquet with open-knit tertiary red berry fruit, hints of leather and sous-bois , just so involving that you cannot extract your nose from the glass. The palate is beautifully balanced with seamless tannin, superb acidity, the new oak present but seamless integrated with a satin-like finish that you might conflate with a wine from Vosne-Romanée. Outstanding. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Neal Martin
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Very intense and dramatic. Maybe a bit too much drama! Fruit buried at present under a load of spicy oak. (JR)
(40% vendange entier ; just 8 barrels produced in 2016, vs. 27 in 2017): Bright ruby. Wonderfully pure, utterly captivating aromas of cassis, black cherry, violet and spices. Compellingly rich and chewy, with its slightly high-toned dark fruit flavors enlivened by chalky minerality and savory earth tones. Atypically silky and opulent for both the vineyard and the vintage, but this generous wine's broad dusting of tannins, harmonious acidity and underlying minerality give it an impression of completeness. Finishes with lingering notes of dark chocolate and violet. Liger-Belair noted that there's calcite in a fault in this vineyard (from the scraping of the limestone over time) and that the topsoil has been getting whiter through natural movement. The result, he said, has been wines "with more verticality and lift, a bit less burly than previously."