Nuits St Georges, Les Pruliers, 1er Cru, 2015
Distinctly red fruit in profile, notes of cherry and small red berries, no doubt the result of the vineyard’s proximity to the cooling Combe de Nuits. A very complete, powerful and assured Nuits, smooth sweet fruit, minerals and spices with a crisp freshness. A parcel of 50-year-old vines close to Clos des Porrets that, like its neighbour, also produces classic mineral Nuits but with a touch more roundness to it. The soils are similar although in Pruliers the stone elements are a little more broken down.
critic reviews
The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Pruliers 1er Cru has a very perfumed, floral bouquet with scents of crushed flower and chalk permeating the red cherry and strawberry fruit. There is a little more horsepower here compared to the 2014 if not quite the same delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, tightening up in the middle to form a more sinewy, backward finish indicative of a vintage that is generally beginning to close up. Give this several years to really come around. Tasted at the Gouges retrospective at La Cabotte.