Domaine Henri Gouges

Nuits St Georges, Les Pruliers, 1er Cru, 2017

Name: Nuits St Georges, Les Pruliers, 1er Cru
Brand: Domaine Henri Gouges
Price: 919.87 GBP

92/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

87/100

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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Less dense than the Clos des Porrets and less dark. Expressive and expansive. Full open-knit red berry fruits with a mineral kick. Fragrant and energetic with firm grip providing a solid structure, coming back to sweeter red fruits and asian spice notes on the finish. 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.

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Critic Reviews

87/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2017 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Pruliers 1er Cru shows some acetone on the menthol-like nose and lacks real complexity. The fleshy palate is medium-bodied, clean and pure, with supple tannins and perhaps just a little too much new oak on the finish. If that is subsumed with bottle age, this might deserve a higher score, though it does seem a bit monotone. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2017 tasting.

drinking window 2023 - 2036

date of review 01/2022

92/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2017 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Pruliers wafts from the glass with an appealing bouquet of raspberries, red cherries, spiced plums, dried flowers and earthy forest floor. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, with a ripe core of fruit, tangy acids and a firm, stony finish. It's a suave, nicely integrated rendition of a climat that can sometimes be forbiddingly structural in its youth.

drinking window 2020 - 2040

date of review 01/2019

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