For reports and full tasting notes, go toTim Atkin MW's website.

(all of the barrels for this wine were made from oak planted in white, limestone-rich soils): Bright red. Locked up tight on the nose. Very rich, sappy and concentrated but with a medicinal reserve to the black fruit and spice flavors. Quite backward today and dominated by its structure. Most impressive on the very long, firm, mouth-saturing finish, which leaves the taste buds quivering. Incidentally, Liger-Belair replanted half of his Saint-Georges in April of 2011 due to the severe loss of vines he suffered during the sharp frost in December of 2009. He produced just 25 hectoliters per hectare of Saint-Georges in 2011 and 11 in 2012.

Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. There is a sense of everything being in its right place on the nose of Thibault’s Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru Les Saint Georges: conservative and linear, but well defined and fresh. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannins and a fine thread of acidity. Lively and ebullient, focused and taut, this is a lovely, quite sophisticated Nuits Saint Georges. Excellent.

Blackish ruby. Exciting energy on the nose with masses of ripe fruit. Edge of acidity and freshness. Solid stuff! Still lots of tannin. Robust. Long. Promising. (JR)