Nuits St Georges wines make you long to bite into them. Although their name evokes twilight and nightfall, these premier crus have a fairly vigorous nature, hard while immature, more caressing later on.
Les Boudots wines, rigorous and lively, with high alcohol content and great finesse, are notable for their soft, perfumed bouquet, reminiscent of blackcurrants and wild blackberries; their bouquet alone makes them easy to distinguish from wines from other vineyard areas. This wine dazzles you less by its body than by its subtlety. It is as if the Côte regretted having made an oversight, and had returned to Vosne for a moment.
They are a deep ruby in colour, and possess a vigourous personality, with fennel elements and aromas of red fruits. The fine acidity that characterises these wines makes them perfectly balanced and suitable for lying down.
There is enough reduction present to render the nose tough to assess but it seems clear that the underlying fruit is ripe. Otherwise, there is both good volume and power to the solidly concentrated bigger-bodied flavours that brim with plenty of sappy dry extract while delivering fine length on the mildly rustic and austere finale. This caressing but the powerful effort is potentially outstanding though patience will be required.