There is just one barrel of the 2011 Nuits-St-Georges Aux Bas de Combe that has the most straight-laced bouquet of the three Nuits-St-Georges 2011s: a little rounded on the nose with hints of mulberry infusing the black fruit. The palate is the most structured, the tannins forming a fine chassis for the pure black cherry, dark plum and spicy fruit, a clever dash of white pepper sprinkled over the finish when nobody was looking. Superb. - Neal Martin

This is the most complex of the three Nuits villages wines with its expressive, ripe and relatively refined nose of violets, spice, earth, red currant and wild dark berries. The mid-palate is rounder and a bit more accessible with opulent medium-bodied flavors that coat the tannins with so much extract that this does not seem to be as structured as it is. I very much like the harmony of expression and the balance is seamless. The best of this group.