Nuits St Georges, Les Vaucrains, 1er Cru, 2021

Complex briary fruit on the nose with great precision, flecks of red berries appearing alongside wilted flowers. There’s good concentration here, but it’s delivered very gently. A fine grained, sophisticated texture, ultra-supple tannins, with more depth than the previous cuvées. This is rather lovely; a seductive, supple, polished Nuits with seamless, fine layering of flavours. One of the great vineyards of Nuits, the Gouges old vines parcels in Vaucrains always produce very small berries, making for a very powerful, intense wine. The vineyard is influenced by its red stony clay soils and the cooling effect of the forest.