The 2003 Nuits-St.-Georges Les St.-Georges, from this commune’s most heralded vineyard, sports a mouth-watering nose of cassis liqueur, blackberries, and black cherries. Medium to full-bodied, it is the firmest of Gouges’s 2003s, exhibiting worrisome levels of hard tannin. That being said, this wine also boasts unreal quantities of mouth-coating black fruits that assault the taster in unrelenting waves. If the rustic dryness of the tannin is overcome, in time, by the density of this effort’s fruit, this may be a 30-40 year wine of epic proportions. If not... Projected maturity: 2015-2030? Importer: Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL; tel. (205) 980-8802

The 2003 Nuits-St.-Georges Les St.-Georges, from this commune’s most heralded vineyard, sports a mouth-watering nose of cassis liqueur, blackberries, and black cherries. Medium to full-bodied, it is the firmest of Gouges’s 2003s, exhibiting worrisome levels of hard tannin. That being said, this wine also boasts unreal quantities of mouth-coating black fruits that assault the taster in unrelenting waves. If the rustic dryness of the tannin is overcome, in time, by the density of this effort’s fruit, this may be a 30-40 year wine of epic proportions. If not... Projected maturity: 2015-2030? Importer: Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL; tel. (205) 980-8802