The 2013 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots is a beautiful young wine, offering up aromas of red plums, cassis, smoked duck, exotic spices and dried rose petals. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, fleshy but youthfully reserved, with fine-grained tannins, racy acids and a deep, tightly coiled core. While this is sufficiently structurally refined to be approachable now, the real fireworks will come with another decade of bottle age.

There is a strong marine influence on the 2013 Nuits Saint Georges les Boudots that infuse the very focused, mineral-driven, black bilberry and blackberry fruit. The palate is very intense and with great body and presence. Supple tannins make an immediate impression however, it is the weight of the fruit that really comes across with a dash of white pepper on the long peacock’s tail finish. This Boudots is endowed with immense complexity and ambition. Superb.

Very full and fleshy. Really gorgeous direct fruit. So pure and unmediated. Almost grape juice but with subtlety. Very fine tannins. (JR)