Nuits St Georges, Les St Georges, 2015

The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Saint-Georges 1er Cru has a powerful, smudged, rather oppressive bouquet that lacks subtlety and seems to be dominated by the growing season (one of the few in this appellation to be so). The palate is medium-bodied with chewy tannin, a slight metallic taint and a short, rather abrupt finish that displays too much wood tannin. Agh... this was so impressive out of barrel, but this is perplexing. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.