1999 Domaine Henri Gouges Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Chênes Carteaux

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 86.2 points

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  2/13/2023 - Gargantua wrote:

  Still feels quite young; full of life and grip! The dark, earthy fruit brought to mind a vulcanized rubber tire with a bit of sweetness to it--that's in line with how I generally perceive NSGs. We enjoyed this with bacon cheeseburgers and it worked great, especially with the grilled onions. I'd guess this could easily age another decade.

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  12/4/2022 - blanquito wrote:

  Wow, this is a beast and a true throw-back. Sauvage, vinous, deep, dark, a touch rank with some stemminess, I love the earthy, rustic, intense bouquet. There is great body and concentration on the attack, but then a rough, woody structure and tannin clamps down on the finish and leaves a hard, acrid taste. 90 pts tonight for its energy and unapologetic old-schoolness, but 93+ pts easily if this pull together with another decade or more in the cellar.

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  12/2/2022 - bkc1428 wrote: 87 Points

  Nose was incredibly beautiful, but still so tannic. Maybe it will be showing its full potential in a decade.

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  3/12/2017 - Cellarslacker Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Many prior ratings are too low here and it's pretty obvious why when tasting this now: this is traditional "vin de garde", only now in 2017 entering its drinking window, with a dark cherry color of the wine (now 17+ years old) and prominent, muscular tannins on the finish. For those who found no fruit I say that this wine was not over-the-hill but probably just shut down. Such is the structure of 1999 and the old-school stylings of Gouge that this wine will probably be it's best in 2020-2025. A nice array of flavors here: ripe blackberry, spiced kirsch sap, oversteeped green tea, brisket smoke and a stony finish. Still plenty of primary fruit, which showed best after about 3 hours of waking up.
  That doesn't clear this wine of all charges, however; there is a bit more extraction and ruggedness than I want, even for a Nuits-Saint-Georges. But the wine was undeniable delicious and powerful, and showed true to the village and vintage. Definitely 1er quality.

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  5/3/2016 - maxfischer wrote:

  Super mature nose upon open. Diffused over the several hours we tasted but never fully went away. Very muted fruit, but acid and tannins still intact. Not particularly pleasurable in light of the nose, but perhaps, as others have suggested, extended aeration would bring this into focus.

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