Domaine de Montille Nuits-Saint-Georges Aux Saints-Juliens 2020
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Morris
Jasper
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This NSG Villages is bursting with vibrant red fruits and a touch of light spice and minerality. The focus on extracting only noble tannins helps to tame what can be a harder, more rustic profile. De Montille feels this vineyard gives a wine that is very "Vosne-esque" in its elegance.
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Jasper Morris
Bright fresh purple; with a really heady racy nose. 100% whole bunch to fill up the wooden vat! Gorgeous bouquet here! Like all the cuvées there is a firm aspect at the finish, but the fruit is completely a delight and very harmonious with the whole bunch. Feels like they have moved the vineyard closer to Vosne this year!
Barrel Sample: 92-94
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Inhabiting the bottom end of the northern half of the Côte d’Or, Nuits-St-Georges is a busy, market-driven town and home to many of Burgundy’s negociants. It is also the largest town in the Côte d’Or after Beaune and contributes "nuits" to the name of Côte de Nuits (i.e., the northern half of the Côte d’Or).
The appellation itself is divided into two parts, where in the north it directly borders Vosne-Romanée, the southerly end is the commune of Prémeaux. There are no Grands Crus in this village, though it does have a large number of Premiers Crus.
The best Nuits-St-Georges Pinot Noir are layered with cherry, plum, underbrush and sandalwood. The fruit is sweet, the wine energetic, and the finish long and lush.