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2012 Alain Hudelot-Noellat Nuits-St.-Georges Les Murgers, 6-bottle Lot

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2012 Alain Hudelot-Noellat Nuits-St.-Georges Les Murgers

750ml

RATINGS

93The Wine Advocate

... It has a crisp and well-defined bouquet with brambly red berry fruit, a touch of undergrowth and pressed rose petals. This is one of the most elegant wines of the lineup. The palate is medium-bodied with supple ripe tannin, crisp acidity, just a dash of black pepper and a cohesive, very focused and appetizing finish...

92Burghound.com

This is beautifully complex with its expressive nose of freshly turned earth, anise, clove, sandalwood and ripe dark berry fruit scents. There is excellent volume to the attractively rich and mouth coating medium-bodied flavors that possess very good power and focus on the equally complex and strikingly persistent finish...

91Stephen Tanzer

... Expressive aromas of redcurrant, dried flowers, iron and tobacco...enticing sweetness and subtle earth and saline mineral notes. Finishes with a fine dusting of tannins and very good building length.

17Jancis Robinson

...beautiful fruit purity on the palate. Tender, yielding tannins and good fruit concentration. Medium body...with a flavour a bit like black tea.

PRODUCER

Alain Hudelot-Noellat

Domaine Alain Hudelot-Noellat is in Vougeot, Burgundy. The 30-acre estate was owned and operated by Alain Hudelot-Noellat for many decades. Today it is run by Alain's grandson Charles, who trained in oenology at Djjon University. Included are grand cru parcels in Clos de Vougeot, Romanee-St.-Vivant and Richebourg. Other plots are mostly premier cru. Robert M. Parker Jr. has noted that the estate produces “extremely seductive, creamy wines that have a vivid, well-focused, rich fruitiness, and good body.”

REGION

France, Burgundy, Côte d'Or, Côte de Nuits-Villages, Nuits-St.-Georges, Aux Murgers

Aux Mergers is a 12.2-acre vineyard in the Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation, in Burgundy’s Cote-de-Nuits. It is near the northern boundary of Nuits-Saints-Georges, at an average elevation of 270 meters. The soil is limestone, quite a bit of gravel and some sand. Wine writers note that the wines from these northern Nuits-Saint-Georges vineyards have a hint of Vosne about them, since they are so close to the Vosne-Romanee appellation. Because there are no Grand Cru vineyards in Nuits-Saints-Georges, the appellation’s considerable reputation rests on its excellent Premier Crus.

TYPE

Red Wine, Pinot Noir, 1er (Premier) Cru

This red wine is relatively light and can pair with a wide variety of foods. The grape prefers cooler climates and the wine is most often associated with Burgundy, Champagne and the U.S. west coast. Regional differences make it nearly as fickle as it is flexible.