Nuits-Saint-Georges, Les Vaucrains, 1er Cru, 2011

Tight-knit, brooding, so profound and complete. Flavours of juicy, ripe bramble, sloe and raspberry; long, velvety and bright with a certain Nuits earthiness and savoury character; minerally complex and impressively concentrated. Closed but definitely a star for the future. One of the great vineyards of Nuits, Gouges note that their parcels in Vaucrains always produce very small berries, making for a very powerful, intense wine.