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Nuits St Georges Vaucrains 1er Cru 2015

Nuits St Georges / Gouges, Henri

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Tasting Notes

The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Vaucrains 1er Cru has a slightly reduced bouquet of raspberry, crushed strawberry and pressed flower scents that become more accentuated with time. The palate is very well balanced with fine tannin, very good acidity. Poised and full of energy, although it still cuts away a little swiftly on the finish. There is a potentially great wine here, but it is certainly not faultless. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.

Score: 91

Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2022-2045 01 November 2018

The 2015 Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru Les Vaucrains was showing more reduction on the nose compared to the other premier crus, making the nose difficult to read. The palate is medium-bodied with expressive, supple red cherry and raspberry fruit, a little "straight-laced" perhaps, a Nuits Saint-Georges that prefers correctness on the finish rather than flamboyance (at least at the moment). There is certainly good weight on the finish and I can see this repaying those who cellar it for several years.

Score: 92 - 94

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2022-2045 30 December 2016

The 2015 Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru les Vaucrains reveals excellent potential, wafting from the glass with a reticent bouquet of creamy red and black fruit, dark chocolate and squab. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, powerful and deep at the core, its imposing chassis of fine-grained tannin already beginning at clamp down on the finish, its acids positively racy. For all the Gouges' efforts to tame their wines' tannins, this is a classic Vaucrains that will demand a good decade of cellaring: patience, however, will bear dividends.

Score: 92

William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2025-2050 27 April 2018

An exuberantly spicy nose offers up notes of cassis, various black fruit nuances and plenty of earth and game scents. The dense, powerful and brooding big-bodied flavors possess outstanding volume and mid-palate concentration where the abundant dry extract serves to buffer the very firm and imposing tannic spine on the hugely long finish. This is certainly a big wine, in fact it's borderline massive and not surprisingly it's going to need a very long time to arrive at its full potential. Recommended.

Score: 94

Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2035+ 15 January 2018

(aged in 25% new oak): Bright medium red. Subdued nose shows more red than black fruits, along with complicating notes of spices and red licorice. Wonderfully sweet, spicy and rich, with enough juiciness to give balance and early personality to the tactile, juicy flavors of raspberry, minerals and spices. Very sexy and suave on the long if somewhat youthfully imploded finish. This complete premier cru should last for a long time in a cool cellar. Despite the fact that the Gouges family picked very early in 2015, Antoine Gouges describes the wines as very ripe but not quite candied or overripe, with the structure for a long life in bottle. He added that the estate's '15s were bottled with around 13% alcohol.

Score: 93

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com 01 January 2018

Medium red. Rich, ripe, chocolatey aromas of black plum, dark raspberry, minerals and menthol. Ripe, silky and deep but with lovely energy to the flavors of black raspberry, minerals and spices. Finishes long and gripping, with substantial but nicely integrated tannins and subtle saline minerality. Uncompromisingly dry but not hard or austere, this rather tight-grained wine still needs more élevage and should age very well.

Score: 92 - 94

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com 01 January 2017