Domaine Robert Chevillon, Nuits St. Georges, 1. Cru, Bourgogne, Frankring
Beskrivelse:
Burghound.com
"Note: from a .70 ha parcel of 50+ year old vines
Producer note: Bertrand Chevillon was frank when he said "late August and September saved us. I honestly don't know what we would have been able to make without them but it probably would not have been very good. Interestingly, we really didn't have all that much sorting work to do and what we did was mostly to eliminate under ripe berries. We began picking on September 1st and brought in fruit that averaged around 12.5% potential alcohol with good phenolic maturities and acidities. We did a normal vinification that lasted about five weeks. By contrast, the malos were extremely long and slow and the wines really didn't take shape until afterwards. As to the style of the wines, they remind me of the 2000s but with even redder fruit profiles, except the Vaucrains and Les Cailles where the fruit runs more toward the black side of the spectrum."
Tasting note: A distinctly animale note characterizes the more deeply pitched nose that is very Nuits in character with pungent earth notes suffusing the red and blue pinot fruit aromas that introduce rich, full and seductive medium plus weight flavors as the dry extract confers a velvety quality to the wonderfully complex finish that delivers outstanding length. The rounded tannins are moderately firm and this will require 8 to 10 years in the cellar first before it will really blossom. Highly recommended."
91-93 Point
Neal Martin i The Wine Advocate
"This has a fragrant floral nose with touches of rose petals and cold metal (Scaletrix?) Ripe dark fruits on the entry, firm and masculine with bold grippy tannins towards the austere finish. Needs time. Drink 2012-2020" 89-91 point
David Schildknecht i The Wine Advocate
"Soy, peat, plum paste, blackberry, and crushed stone mingle intriguingly and enticingly on the nose and palate of Chevillons’ 2007 Nuits-St.-Georges Pruliers, and while there is a certain severity of tannin reinforcing its stony and smoky side, the fruit here exhibits greater clarity and the finish more refreshment and vibrant energy than in several of its immediate siblings. This multi-layered Pinot should be worth following for the better part of a decade.
Bertrand Chevillon reported the typically late, long malos of the 2008 vintage, and the Chevillon crus were not bottled until last spring – subsequent to my tastings of them, which took place in part assembled from tank and in part from representative selections of barrels. Interestingly, Chevillons report a normal crop level, stressing that vigilance and diligence in vine treatments made for a healthy crop. Most of the musts weighed-in between 12.5% and 13% potential alcohol and chaptalization was minimal. Bernard Chevillon compares his family’s 2008 with their 2001 –an underestimation, I suspect – and his 2007s with the less interesting, structured, fresh-fruited, or consistent 2000s, an analogy that strikes me as apt. (The Bourgogne and Les St.-Georges, incidentally, had been committed right down to the bottle chez Chevillon by the time I got ‘round to tasting 2007s, hence the absence of notes on those.)" 90 point
