2017 - Domaine Robert Chevillon, Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Vaucrains

The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Vaucrains 1er Cru has one of the most candied and exotic bouquets from within the group of wines tasted from the appellation, featuring copious red fruit, maraschino cherry and canned prune. Fortunately, with aeration it seems to calm down and gain more definition and mineralité. The palate is well balanced with crisp acidity and firm, grippy tannins that provide structure and ballast. The mineralité surfaces toward a vivid, blue-blooded finish that tempts you back for another sip even as you realize that you are broaching this Vaucrains a decade prematurely. Impressive. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.