Bouchard Pere & Fils Nuits Saint Georges ‘Les Cailles’ Premier Cru 2018

Intense notes of black fruit blended with oaky touches and delicately spiced. Full and fleshy on the palate, the structure of this wine is based on elegant tannins.

It pairs well with game, venison, and meat dishes in sauce.

92+ Points – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate Revisited from the bottle, the 2018 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Cailles offers up aromas of cherries, plums, cassis and smoked meats that are still quite youthfully fruit-driven at this early stage. Medium to full-bodied, velvety and elegantly muscular, it’s a rich but nicely balanced wine holding a lot in reserve.

92 Points – Wine Spectator This is lush and pure, offering black cherry, black currant and toasty oak notes. Excellent length too, but this is mainly about the expressive fruit.