Domaine Robert Chevillon, Nuits St. Georges, 1. Cru, Bourgogne, Frankring
Beskrivelse:
David Schildknecht i The Wine Advocate
"Concentrated purple plum tinged with tamarind, peat, and black pepper lend Chevillons’ 2007 Nuits-St.-Georges Les Roncieres a satisfyingly ripe and persistently pungent personality. The juicy persistence here nicely incorporates the spice and smoke elements, and the tannins are finer-grained and less aggressive than in the corresponding Chaignots. I would anticipate satisfaction for at least 6-8 years. Chevillon wines nearly always surprise me with their stamina. (So perhaps I simply never learn!)
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.)" 89 Point
Burghound.com
"Note: from a 1.0 ha parcel of 45+ 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: By contrast, this is less elegant but more complex, both on the slightly gamy red and blue berry fruit nose and the savory, intense, textured and more obviously muscled flavors that culminate in a firmly structured and mouth coating finish. This is much more obviously Nuits in character than any of the preceding wines but the extract, concentration and depth of material is impressive."
90-92 Point
