Germany

This is a juicy, spicy wine! The nose shows a little darker and somewhat more confectionary cherry component along with some sweet earth and intertwined mineral tones. In the mouth there is still a surprising vibrance to the dark cherry core with insistent elements of brown spices and mineral, though the mineral notes are more subtle than typical Nuits and perhaps affected by the wine’s inherent ripeness and bottle age. Delicious on opening, it is perhaps a truer test of this wine’s health that it showed little sign of oxidation the following day, shocking given this wine is over a decade and a half old. The color is a clear bright ruby with lighter but still red edges. Complexity, spice, and more bass notes here as befits this village.