Domaine Leroy, Nuits Saint Georges Boudots

Domaine Leroy, Nuits Saint Georges BoudotsA lavishly spicy, earthy and mildly sauvage tinged nose offers up notes of both red and dark cherry with an interesting smoky hint. There is more volume, richness and power if a bit less refinement to the intensely mineral inflected flavors that culminate in a wonderfully refreshing, highly complex and well balanced finish that really fans out as it sits on the palate. Like many of the wines in the range though this is very clearly built to age and

A consistent performer vintage after vintage

there are just two barrels of this magical Pinot to go around

2013 is the first vintage

The wine is immediately open

though I wonder if it is starting to close down

new leather and mint all build in the glass

Dosage 9 g/l

Discreetly sweet

dry and solidly intense with excellent mid-palate concentration before culminating in a penetrating and mineral-suffused finish that delivers very fine length

classy and mineral-inflected finish

This is the first vintage of Yalumba s new Cabernet/Shiraz-based flagship wine

I like the mouthfeel of the equally tension-filled and mineral-driven middle weight flavors that exhibit evident minerality on the bone-dry