2018
3x1.5L
DP
£380.42
vintage
portfolio
2018
3x1.5L
DP
£380.42
2018
3x1.5L
DP
£380.42
One of the most successful wines in the cellar this year. A gripping, fresh structure. Classic without being too austere. The crisp tannins are well-covered with appealingly vibrant fruit notes of hedgerow berry, bilberry and plum with a savoury note of undergrowth. This is assured, has dimension to it and is crackling with energy. A 3.7 hectares Monopole of Domaine Gouges; long-lived, always one of the more classic muscular-style Nuits of the region.
Henri Gouges started Domaine-bottling in the 1920s and as such are one of Burgundy's pioneering estates. Henri's grandsons Pierre and Christian have been looking after production for the last two decades and have been responible for carving out the Domaine's great reputation for uniquely muscular, long-lived Burgundies. As from the 2007 vintage Gregory, Christian's nephew, who has been working at the Domaine since 2003, is making the wines and has made an immediate impact. His aim is for less extraction in the wines through a collection of numerous small details in the winemaking process, including more use of gravity in the cellars and less pumping of the wines. His changes are not totally wholesale, though, and he still clearly sticks to the Domaine's reserved, traditional approach to making wine. Stems are not included in fermentation but use of new oak is fairly limited. The resultant wines are pure, high-toned, certainly not flashy, and powerful but not unwieldy, they give immense pleasure. An exciting new dawn for a benchmark Burgundian Domaine.
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