2014 Nuits-St Georges, Clos Saint-Marc, 1er Cru, Domaine Michèle & Patrice Rion, Burgundy

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2014 Nuits-St Georges, Clos Saint-Marc, 1er Cru, Domaine Michèle & Patrice Rion, BurgundyThe 2014 glows with an imperial purple. This is absolutely mouth filling, with ripe, dark fruit. Beautifully balanced, this has a generous style without being plummy long and very fine. Patrice Rion compares 2014 to a mix of 1979 and 1989 for the aromatics and delighted to have been able to pick a more or less normal sized crop. He began on 12th September with healthy grapes, reinforced by his system of two sorting tables, one before and one after de

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This is one of the great wines of Châteauneuf-du-Pape

especially in the south of the appellation and for the Chardonnay grape

the 2000 Leoville Poyferre rocks up with bold notions of cigar box

but this bottle seems a bit simple

Burgundy Director Two recent trends which have been continued here by winemaker Pierre Vincent are a slight reduction in the amount of new oak

tinned pineapple and lingering powerful floral peat

At this very early and unfinished stage

The dosage is seven grams per litre and the finish is powerful

focus and a wonderful mousse bead

Maybe some markets will prefer the previous style but we are convinced that Arnaud is making wines of absolute brilliance now as a result of his intelligent fine-tuning

but it has reached a new level of excellence in recent years

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