Pure and focused, exhibiting raspberry and cherry flavors lightly accented by spice and mineral notes. Both delicate and firm, this features terrific balance and a lingering aftertaste of incense. Best from 2017 through 2030. — B.S.

Tasted blind at Flint Wines’ 2007/2012 Nuits Saint-Georges tasting in London. The 2012 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru Aux Murgers has a fleshy, open-knit and quite generous bouquet, hints of leather and game infusing the red fruit, perhaps even just a touch of reduction that soon disappears. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy, ripe, quite sweet, candied red cherry and strawberry, perhaps even with some new oak still to be fully subsumed. Chevillon in style, it has pleasing depth and impressive length, a Nuits Saint Georges for those who like their Pinots to pack a fruity punch without denuding it of terroir expression. Superb. Tasted November 2016. - Neal Martin

(BH89-92 points) There is a subtle hint of wood framing the fresh, ripe and cool dark berry fruit, red currant, spice and slightly sauvage suffused aromas. Here too there is excellent volume and concentration to the impressively rich and sleekly muscular medium weight flavors that exude a subtle touch of minerality on the ever-so-slightly sweet finish where the wood treatment resurfaces. This seems a bit awkward today.