2016 Nuits St Georges Les Cras

There are just one and half barrels of the 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru Aux Cras this year instead of the of the four or five normally produced. It has a gentle bouquet with red cherry and crushed strawberry fruit, just a faint suggestion of menthol bubbling away under the surface. The palate is medium-bodied with fine, supple tannin that frames the Aux Cras with commendable substance given the impact of the frost. This does not feel as if it lost any energy during the trauma of the early growing season and it has a lovely saline finish. Excellent. Just a shame there is so little!