2005 Emmanuel Rouget Nuits St. Georges

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  7/31/2018 - portman63 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Immediately comes across with cherry and some floral tea notes. This is of the high-toned variety. Very soft in the mouth and comes across more like a Vosne-Romanee and made in the de-stemmed methodology. None of the earthiness I get from some NSG's. Made in the same beautiful and textured style of other Rouget wines and I love that. It doesn't have the subtlety and complexity of his Vosne wines, but it pretty enjoyable to my palate.

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  8/7/2017 - sawira wrote: 93 Points

  Delicious. Great at first then fading a bit. Spicy hints of wood, spectacular developing red fruits, super elegant and refined with great nuance. This is just now in prime time. Paled especially in comparison to the ultra meaty 93 Giroud LStG, though. Maybe a bad pairing on my part. Good for another 8-10 years, but not to be missed now.

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  11/22/2015 - sawira wrote: 94 Points

  Side by side with an 04 Marcassin Three Sisters Pinot. While that wine is surface sexy and upfront, this wine is hidden magic. Deep, dark pools of tree ringed water in the moonlight, waiting, waiting, waiting.... At the two hour mark in glass slowly starting to show its depth and complexity. Barrels of over-ripe cherries baking in the hot sun, sticking my head in and being overwhelmed by musty fragrant delicious funk that takes the breath away. Varnishy undertones, all things dank, dark, and mysterious, hidden under a sleek surface presentation. Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. Something inside me knew to just WAIT til the shoe polish otherworldly stink of this wine, in all its understated glory, emerged. Boom. Easily good for another 15 years, and maybe best about 6-10 years from now. Phenomenal.

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  11/6/2015 - TimBWE wrote: 94 Points

  Unlike the vast majority of village wines from the Cote-de-Nuits wines from 2005, this is really in a great place right now. Mature fruit turning to a hint of forest. Tannins are firm but not distracting. Amazing balance. Really impressive.

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  12/6/2014 - sawira wrote: 93 Points

  PnP. Very bright, very deep rich cranberry red, beginnings of bricking, very dark meniscus, some paleness on the rim, barest of hint of beginning oranging. Subdued, sexy, very high quality nose of mysterious ripe dark cherry fruits, with almost a varnishy quality - like baked cherry pie, complete with spices in Grandma's kitchen, with background faint notes of old hardwood and furniture polish. Last nose like this was an 01 Chevillon LStG in 08 - indicating youth and quality. On the palate this has forward, simple, sweet, easy, bright red cherries, and a longgg finish. Not much sign of tannins or even protruding acidity at this point. It might be easy to mistake this as a simple red, but for the nose and length. My sense is this has lots in reserve, but is significantly less closed or clumsy than other 05 CdNuit reds right now. Interesting. More to come as the night unfolds. 92ish right now.
  
  Later - Very, very clean wood and wine making. There's magic here. This is still developing, but, alas, is still a village wine. (That wants to behave like a brilliantly made high end premier cru, but in the end, isn't.) Spectacular for its level. Has another decade or so, not much more. Maybe the best village Burgundy I've ever tasted. 93pts

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