A suave red, featuring black cherry, black currant, violet and spice flavors allied to a supple texture. There's no shortage of structure, but everything is in the right proportion, and this ends with an aftertaste of sweet fruit and spice. Best from 2015 through 2028. – BS

This required a significant amount of air to really get rolling as it was quite tight initially with the same heavily macerated nose that most of the wines in the range display in 2010. With 3ish hours of air however the aromatic profile lightens significantly to reveal violet, spice, plum and dark berry fruit scents. There is good punch and reasonably good detail to the moderately rustic middle weight plus flavors where the Nuits origins are very much in evidence on the balanced, tannic and robust finish. This won't win any prizes for refinement though with few exceptions, Nuits rarely does.