Joseph Drouhin Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru Procès 2017

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91-93 pts af Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate

“The 2017 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Procès offers up an expressive and fruit-driven bouquet of cherries, cassis, raspberries and spices, followed by a medium to full-bodied, ample and exuberant palate with a voluminous core of fruit that largely conceals its firm, stony structuring tannins. Its charm and generosity make it one of the high points of the range this year.” – William Kelley, Januar 2019, Wine Advocate

“This important house—and, with fully 73 hectares of its own vines, domaine—has produced a lovely range of quintessentially elegant wines in the 2017 vintage. With the reds, particular brilliance emerges from Chambolle-Musigny, and the whites are successful across the board, exemplifying the succulent, tender house, an aesthetic deeply in sync with the inherent profile of the vintage. Véronique Drouhin, with whom I tasted this year, briefly summarizes the growing season and the wines it yielded as “early, warm, sunny, dry and charming”—an account that is hardly necessary to embellish. Readers will likely have noted that the Drouhin team are using increasingly large percentages of whole clusters this year, something that the wines—with the sole exception of a slightly carbonic Clos de Bèze—integrate very well.”