Domaine Robert Chevillon, Nuits St. Georges, 1. Cru, Bourgogne, Frankring
Beskrivelse:
Burghound.com
"Note: from a 1.5 ha parcel
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: This is equally pure though less elegant and much more sauvage in character with much more deeply pitched earthy and gamy dark berry fruit aromas that precede the rich, sweet and vibrant flavors that culminate with good detail and a focused finish that exudes controlled power. This possesses excellent potential and this is a bit finer than it usually is with dense but fine tannins and a touch of backend wood. One rarely hears finesse and Vaucrains in the same sentence but this is one such exception." 91-93 Point
Neal Martin i The Wine Advocate
This has a similar nose to Les Cailles but there is a little more alcohol present, more damson fruit evolving in the glass. The palate is ripe on the entry with a nice citrus edge, although it does not have refinement and finesse of Les Cailles. Still a very attractive NSG though. Drink 2010-2018" 90-92 point
David Schildknecht i The Wine Advocate
"Latakia tobacco, beef stock, plum, and blackberry inform the Chevillon 2007 Nuits-St.-Georges Les Vaucrains which somewhat surprisingly displays a more prominent sense of underlying stoniness than the corresponding Les Cailles. There is a bit less juiciness on hand here to compensate for tannin, though the latter is relatively fine-grained. This really grips in the finish, displaying an impressive if static sense of fruity, carnal, and mineral layers. One needs to give it at least 3-4 years I suspect not only to allow for some softening of the tannin but also to take a proper measure of its possible longer-term potential.
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
