Domaine Robert Chevillon, Nuits St. Georges, 1. Cru, Bourgogne, Frankring
Beskrivelse:
Burghound.com
"Note: from a .60 ha parcel of 75+ 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 completely different nose that is more red fruit driven and less overtly spicy yet every bit as complex as the aromas merge seamlessly into the rich, full and classy flavors that are marvelously pure, elegant and taut before culminating in a delicious, serious, dense and powerful finish that really stains the palate with extract. A stunningly good Les St. Georges and absolutely recommended."
92-94 point
David Schildknecht i The Wine Advocate om forrige årgang
"Ethereal, distilled kirsch and framboise notes in the nose of Chevillon 2006 Nuits-St.-Georges Les St.-Georges usher in a liqueur-like palate display, mingling sweet dark berries with marzipan, chocolate, toasted hazelnut, peat, and crushed stone. This displays a more roasted richness than other Chevillon 2006s, along with a sheer sweetness of fruit that seem to typify this site in the vintage, rendering it far more youthfully accessible than normal. That said, it by no means lacks for mineral or for roasted, meaty dimensions, and I imagine it will be worth following for at least a dozen years. The underlying tannic structure is present, simply swathed in what I anticipate to be a more than ample and renewable concentration of fruit. This beauty merits following for a dozen or more years.
Given the superb track record of this estate's wines even in perceived weak and/or youthfully generous vintages - I think, for example, of the youthfully delicious 1992s I purchased at deeply-discounted prices and only recently finished enjoying - it would be foolish to admonish Burgundy lovers to drink their 2006s up early. Nevertheless, like so many of the best wines of this vintage, they are for the most part already on call - or very soon will be - to deliver generously. Bertrand Chevillon reports that little sorting was required above the level of village wines (the team here began picking Pinot September 22), and that while alcoholic fermentation was unusually protracted, the course of elevage from the standpoint of human interaction was unexceptional, save for backing off a pit on pigeage.
Drink: 2009 - 2021" 94 point
Bruce Sanderson i WineSpectator
"Gorgeous violet, blackberry, raspberry and mineral aromas and flavors pulse through this rich, firm, elegant red. Well-proportioned and polished, it's delicious now, but will it age? Give this the benefit of the doubt, but enjoy for its youthful fruit. Drink now through 2018. 35 cases imported. -BS" 92 point
