1991 Faiveley Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Saint Georges

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 87.5 points

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  12/4/2015 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Two Great Old Burgundy Dinners with Dear Friends; 12/4/2015-12/5/2015: The deepest colored red of the evening, completely primary looking. Fairly closed at first, then almost bootstrap, tannic, black fruited scents, and finally a hint of secondary notes and increasing earth. Dense, compact, and tannic on first pour, but this wine opened and traversed the longest distance over the 3 hours we sat with it. I think under these storage conditions, it drinks 20 years too young, but it is not brutal at all and is classic, fairly regal Nuits.

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  12/6/2009 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  This wine transports the drinker to that special vineyard in Nuits where one is surrounded by smells of freshly tilled earth and the just a hint of decaying leaf of early Autumn (it doesn’t really, I’m just trying to create a bit of wanky imagery). It is however a stunning ‘old school’ red Burg that has just entered a beautiful phase of its life. It is crammed full of mineral and earth notes with a little soy development and is quite rich and muscular. There is some perfume and sweetness but its not a fruit thing (if you want fruit look elsewhere this is all about the mineral and the earth). It has great line and is powerful and quite chewy on the finish. There’s been plenty of debate whether ‘Les Saint-Georges’ should be Grand Cru, I have nothing to add other than reporting the fact that this particular bottle was simply outstanding with a slow cooked braise of beef cheeks.

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