2002 Domaine Henri Gouges Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Vaucrains

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  3/19/2023 - Andyrodriguez87 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  At dinner with friends so wasn’t trying to be super precise with TN’s, but, what can I say… this wine always delivers the goods! Masculine, precise, taught, clean, polished, deep and showing ZERO signs of age. Upon opening, this was kind of a monster - tannic, deep but always keeping an amazingly fresh upper register with plenty of acidity and freshness. This took ~3 hours of air before it went back in the bottle and was then drank about 3 hours after that and it was in a rock solid spot. Just an awesome Gouge with no fussiness and in a great spot, although, hateful (if any) secondary development. This can go for a MUCH longer time, although I don’t know that it needs to - for me this wine should be structured and expressive and masculine and trying to find a more ethereal expression and secondary development may take a very, very long time and that beautiful fresh, bright fruit may go away by then. Who knows, I’m no pro, but this is in an awesome spot today!

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  11/11/2022 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points

  Decanted for 90 minutes. Dark translucent ruby. Initial lovely fruit-filled nose disappearing for a while but waking up at hour three, revealing airy violets, florid raspberry, iron filings, and musky pine scents. Dense layers of brilliant, pure primary blackberry, raspberry, and Bing cherry on the palate cut with ferric particles and deep, powdery earth. Bright acidity and still firm tannin. Long finish of chewy dark berry fruit, craggy iron, and sweet grip. Wow, this is barely getting started.

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  8/10/2021 - Xavier94 wrote: 93 Points

  (92-93) Dark, somber profile of elderberry, shoe polish, black licorice, black pepper with a certain musty/dried paint note that does broaden out to show more earth, leather and fire smoke complexity. This is quite robust with notable tannic structure right now and should only improve with extended bottle age. Give this plenty of time to open out if you want to pop a bottle now. Does come around and shows real character but this is quite a vin de garde.

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  5/9/2021 - drfloyd Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I have had two of these in the cellar for well over a decade - was singing out of the gates and put on a bit of weight as the night progressed. Nice acidity and just perfect balance with the fruit. No formal note but very enjoyable and was perfect w/ a roast chicken. And as others have mentioned very little signs of age - impressive and just lovely

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  4/20/2021 - Tom Henriksveen wrote: 93 Points

  Excellent bottle. Dark fruit, soft tannins, medium aciditi and medium length. Hardly any bricking - will last another 20+ years.

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