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Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er cru Les Pruliers
2016
Domaine Jean Grivot is one of Burgundy's greatest small family estates, and their story is a classic Burgundy family story. They were one of the first families in Vosne Romanee to bottle and sell their own wine, beginning in the 1930's. The estate has been run by fifth-generation vigneron Etienne Grivot since 1987 with his wife Marielle. The domaine is an impressive 15ha in total, but in classic 'small is beautiful' Burgundian fashion it takes little bits of 22 different appellations to cobble...
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The 2017 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Pruliers 1er Cru has a gorgeous bouquet of generous red berry fruit, Earl Grey, pressed white flowers and just a slight orange blossom aroma. The palate is sweet on the entry, offering vibrant red cherry and strawberry fruit. Mineralité floods through the wine on the persistent finish. Yet another scintillating contribution from this vineyard.
More discreet wood influence easily allows the aromas of plum, dark currant, earth and evident sauvage character to be appreciated. The richer, more powerful and more complex if less mineral-driven broad-shouldered flavors are blessed with plenty of dry extract that helps to buffer the very firm, robust, compact and youthfully austere finale. I really like the sense of energy and while this is a big wine, it's not a block of tannin.
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Pruliers is just north of Roncières, yet oddly seems less rustic and savoury. Grivot has 0.76ha of vines here, planted 50 years ago. The fruit ripens well and delivers a ripe plummy fruit, with notes of liquorice and violets. The texture is fine-grained and silky, while the heft of the weight on the palate is pleasant, indeed.
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The 2017 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Pruliers displays aromas of plums, strawberries, rose petals and earthy soil tones, followed by a medium to full-bodied, ample and satiny palate with good concentration and an open-knit, charming profile, concluding with some firm back-end tannin. This is an unusually accessible Pruliers that will offer atypically precocious drinking.
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Light crimson. So pretty it has something orangey about it as well as the fragrant red fruit. A miracle of delicacy combined with persistence.
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Light crimson. So pretty it has something orangey about it as well as the fragrant red fruit. A miracle of delicacy combined with persistence. (JH)
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