1995 Nuits St Georges Les Vaucrains

Laurent's dark-colored, almost black, Nuits-St.-Georges Les Vaucrains reveals a brooding, masculine nose of tangy cherries and an exquisite, super-concentrated, thick-textured, lively yet highly structured flavor profile packed with stones, minerals and red berries. This superb wine will be at its best between 2002-2012. This note is the result of tastings I did in Burgundy between January 7 and January 29. The wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Pinot Noir, a fragile varietal, reacts poorly to fining, filtration, and careless bottling techniques, I recommend caution when considering buying a red burgundy based on cask samples. I called it as I tasted it, and hope the bottled wine reflects the quality of the samples I was provided. A Patrick Lesec Selection (Paris Fax # 011-33-1-42-84-38-22), various American importers.