Tasting Notes
Vinous 90
The 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Saint-Georges 1er Cru has an opulent bouquet, perhaps flirting with a touch of volatility. Plenty of red fruit here is laced with blood orange, but it needs a little more control. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit, firm grip and quite dense and sinewy towards the finish. But overall it just lacks the finesse and poise of its peers. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting.
Anticipated maturity: 2021-2035
Robert Parker 90-92
"The 2016 Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru Les Saint Georges was cropped at just 12 hectoliters per hectare this vintage. Like the Les Vaucrains, I just felt that the aromatics were a tad subdued compared to Les Pruliers or Les Porrets. It is nicely defined but I would like more vigor. The palate is medium-bodied with chalky tannin, here the brightness and energy belatedly beginning to shine and it shows fine tension and elegance toward the finish. It is not the greatest Les Saint-Georges that Gouges will ever make, but it comes good at the end."
Anticipated maturity: 2021-2035