Community Tasting Notes (1)

  • Good fill. Long cork - needed the Durand - almost but not quite wet to the top. Dark cherry fruited nose with notes of iron and damp earth. No meaningful sousbois - no funky forest floor or leaf. It is fruit, iron and dirt. Medium plus weight on the palate with some power and drive still - ferrous notes - you can almost taste the red soil. Just a little extracted by today’s standards. Listed as 13%. There is still an appealing sweetness to the fruit, which does not lack for ripeness - but also is not particularly complex or layered. Tannins well behaved now. Sinewed muscle. And true to the vineyard, there is an expression of elegance here despite a flavor profile that no one would describe as pretty. Better than very good length. This wine is completely faithful to its terroir. On this showing, all Joe Faiveley’s wine’s need is 35 years. A fine vintage that continues to show it just needed some time. If Nuits Saint Georges ever could be conceived of as a thing of beauty, this is probably it, through it is a bit brooding and lacks some sophistication. Will go twenty years yet. Wonderful in its way. Bought on release.

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