Rich and refined, this is an aristocratic wine for Nuits-Saint-Georges. Needs a bit of air to open up, but then the dark cherry and fresh plum are augmented by a rooty touch. Full-bodied, but with lovely delicacy on the silky palate. The finish has so many delicate spice and earth nuances.
A much spicier and more elegant nose is comprised by notes of plum, sandalwood and dark raspberry. The medium weight plus flavors possess a caressing yet powerful mouthfeel where the intensity really builds on the palate coating, muscular and firm finale.
The 2018 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots (Domaine Gagey) is showing nicely in bottle, bursting with aromas of cherries, sweet berries, orange rind, plums and sweet soil tones. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and charming, with an enveloping core of fruit, melting tannins and succulent acids, it’s forward and giving out of the gates.
The cherry and blackberry fruit is married to spicy, toasty oak in this beefy red, while the wood adds an extra layer of tannins. This gives it a compact feel, with the spicy oak being the lasting impression.
Grown at Nuits-St-Georges’ border with Vosne-Romanée,
neighboring the premier cru Les Malconsorts, this wine combines the black-fruit richness of a great Nuits with the singing tannins of the vines looking north. It starts off tough,the tannins dominating the fruit in notes of beet root and blackberry seeds. Air negotiates with those tannins over the course of several days, releasing the luscious dark-berry fruit to freedom in a wine that’s very ripe and
very delicious.