The 2009 Nuits St. Georges Les Didiers is a beautiful, dense wine loaded with dark red fruit. It shows fabulous persistence through to the generous finish. This is quite powerful and very nicely done. The Didiers purchased wine from the Hospice de Nuits. Lignier does the elevage, and bottles the wine unfined and unfiltered. The Didiers is quite a bit different in style from the rest of the Lignier wines, with darker fruit and more intense personality, but it all works nicely. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2024. Hubert Lignier started harvesting on September 11. The fruit was 100% destemmed. Vinification started with a few days of cold maceration followed by fermentation, with one or two punchdowns a day. The village level wines saw 20-25% new oak (some of the barrels were slightly larger 350-liter casks), while the estate used approximately 33% and 50% new barrels for the 1er Crus and Grand Crus respectively. Importer: Rosenthal Wine Merchant, Pine Plains, NY; tel. (800) 910-1990