Nuits St Georges, Les Vaucrains, 1er Cru, 2021
Altogether darker and more brooding than anything else in the cellar. Robust of structure, the flavours rooted to the earth. A very fine stoniness contains wild small berry fruits that are going to need some time to fully emerge. There’s power here, but it’s wonderfully fine too. Complex and precise with a taut muscular feel to it. Very good indeed. One of the great vineyards of Nuits that often rivals Les St Georges, above which it sits directly, albeit in a more brooding and muscular style.
critic reviews
The 2021 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Vaucrains 1er Cru has a light nose with brambly black fruit, loamy touches of damp undergrowth emerging with time and, after ten minutes, dried violet petals. The palate is medium-bodied with chalky tannins. Vibrant and tensile, though a little leaner towards the finish due to the vintage, this is fresh and sapid but perhaps more for earlier drinking. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.