In Bond Fine Wine. 2015 Henri Gouges Nuits St Georges Vaucrains 1er Cru, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Burgundy, France. 1er Cru • Red Burgundy in 6x75cl. Top critic score: 94/100 (BH). Drinking window: 2022+. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
Neal Martin (NM) — 92–94/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 30/12/2016 · Drink 2022-2045
The 2015 Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru Les Vaucrains was showing more reduction on the nose compared to the other premier crus, making the nose difficult to read. The palate is medium-bodied with expressive, supple red cherry and raspberry fruit, a little "straight-laced" perhaps, a Nuits Saint-Georges that prefers correctness on the finish rather than flamboyance (at least at the moment). There is…
William Kelley (WK) — 92/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 27/04/2018 · Drink 2025-2050
The 2015 Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru les Vaucrains reveals excellent potential, wafting from the glass with a reticent bouquet of creamy red and black fruit, dark chocolate and squab. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, powerful and deep at the core, its imposing chassis of fine-grained tannin already beginning at clamp down on the finish, its acids positively racy. For all the Gouges' effort…
Allen Meadows (BH) — 94/100 · Burghound, 15/01/2018 · Drink 2035+
An exuberantly spicy nose offers up notes of cassis, various black fruit nuances and plenty of earth and game scents. The dense, powerful and brooding big-bodied flavors possess outstanding volume and mid-palate concentration where the abundant dry extract serves to buffer the very firm and imposing tannic spine on the hugely long finish. This is certainly a big wine, in fact it's borderline mass…