Grand Cru Wine Merchants

The Gouges 2006 Nuits-St.-Georges Les St.-Georges evinces a sweet, liqueur-like concentration of blackberry and cherry, yet manages to retain a lovely suggestion of fresh fruit as well that is unexpected given the headiness and suggestive richness to its aromas. A clean meatiness underlies the lush fruit. There is plenty of tannin here but it is so refined – and the fruit so sweetly concentrated – that one has to attend closely to notice it, and the textural impression is one of silken refinement. This finishes exhilaratingly and with even greater persistence than the Vaucrains, although it doesn't for now displays as much detail or that wine's remarkable sense of mineral presence. It would be a shame to break open many bottles of this for the next 3-4 years, as it has probably got at least a dozen years' potential. -93pts WA (DS)