Nuits-St-Georges, Blanc, Clos de la Maréchale, 1er Cru, 2016
critic reviews
The 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges Clos de la Maréchale Blanc 1er Cru has a fine resinous, honeysuckle scented bouquet that seems to wrap itself around your senses. The palate is well balanced with a waxy texture, veins of tropical fruit on the mid-palate and good density. I feel it would benefit from more length, but otherwise this is a very seductive white. Tasted at the Domaine.
The 2016 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Clos de la Marechale Blanc unfurls in the glass with aromas of citrus oil, wet stones and white flowers. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, with a satiny, textural attack, a deep but open-knit mid-palate and considerable chewy extract, concluding with a stony finish. Mugnier lost 60% of his crop to frost this year, and the resulting wine is paradoxical, with a fleshy, low-acid profile yet a decidedly cool-vintage character. It will always be an atypical vintage of the Clos de la Marechale Blanc.