2015 Nuits St Georges Les Boudots

Relatively pale. Some tension as well as all that ripe fruit here. Very sweet and distinctive. Hedonistic – so different from the old style…

(from 70+ year old vines). A pungent nose is presently composed by notes of wood and enough reduction to suppress the underlying fruit. Otherwise there is superb richness to the voluptuous medium weight plus flavors that possess a highly seductive texture thanks to the abundant dry extract that imparts a sappy mouth feel and serves to mostly buffer the very firm tannic spine on the strikingly persistent finish. Boudots is a chameleon-like terroir that can be either Nuits or Vosne in basic character; in 2015, it’s more Vosne than Nuits.

The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots has an opulent, effervescent bouquet with copious red cherries, wild strawberry, marmalade and hints of allspice that all make for a very complex and quite riveting experience. The palate is medium-bodied with a sweet candied entry, like the aromatics, forward and opulent in style with a rich, dense, spicy finish that feels as much Vosne-Romanée as Nuits Saint-Georges. It will need several years in bottle, but it should be a hell of a lot of fun once ready.