Domaine Robert Chevillon 2005 Nuits St. Georges "Les Vaucrains" ♥
1er Cru Red barrel
Score: 91-94
Tasted: Jan 01, 2007
Drink: 2017+
Issue: 25
Sweet spot Outstanding
Tasting note: This is particularly ripe yet the nose is fresh and expressive with its dark raspberry fruit, earth, violet and slightly sauvage notes but the big, robust and amply muscled flavors are brooding to the point of being intensely primary and borderline backward. This is the most structured wine of the range but there is so much extract that the tannins are almost completely buffered, which will permit a long if slow evolution. This is a dramatic effort that isn't quite as classy as the Les St. Georges or Les Cailles but it is likely to be the last wine standing as it were some decades hence.