2016 Nuits St Georges Les Murgers des Cras Perrot-Minot

(this cuvée is composed from 20% Les Murgers, 20% Les Cras and 60% Richemone). Firm reduction renders the nose tough to evaluate. On the plus side there is a lovely inner mouth perfumed to the tautly muscular and very punchy flavors that are at once robust yet reasonably refined thanks to the relatively fine-grain of the supporting tannins shaping the bitter cherry-inflected finish. This is quite firm but not rustic or even especially austere though with that said, this will need at least some bottle age to unwind and flesh out. Drink 2028+ .

(60% from La Richemone and 20% each from Les Aux Murgers and Aux Cras): Bright, dark red. Lovely airy aromas of black cherry, dark raspberry and spices accented by a note of white flowers; these vineyards are all on the Vosne side of Nuits and it shows. Sappy and bracing in the mouth, conveying terrific inner-mouth tension to its black cherry and licorice flavors complicated by saline minerality. Finishes with a medicinal menthol reserve and building tannins that are a bit tougher than those of the estate's village wines.