Henri Gouges, Nuits Saint Georges Vaucrains Vintage:2020 (91-93)/2024+

(91-93)/2024+

with the 2011 Flaccianello della Pieve appearing a bit softer and plumper around the midsection

Offering up an incipiently complex bouquet of orchard fruit

I sampled a mind-boggling array of outstanding and often profound wines in my marathon tasting session with proprietor and winemaker Luca Currado

Henri Gouges, Nuits Saint Georges Vaucrains Vintage:2020 (91-93)/2024+(from a 1. 08 ha mix of younger and older vines that average about 50+ years of age). 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