92+ The 2012 Domaine Chevillon Bousselots is also outstanding and truly striking this year in its stunning synthesis of pure, velvety fruit and great soil transparency. The excellent bouquet offers up a blend of red and black cherries, gamebirds, nutskin, woodsmoke, cocoa, great minerally soil tones and a fine base of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very precise, with a sappy core, great focus and grip and a very, very long, soil-driven and ripely tannic finish. A beautiful and very elegant rendition of Bousselots that is almost as irresistible as the Chaignots out of the blocks this year! (Drink between 2020-2045)

Light in color and body, with pure, intense flavors of cherry, strawberry, currant and spice. Elegant and juicy, firmly structured and balanced in a lean, athletic way. Very persistent. Best from 2018 through 2027. 25 cases imported. — BS

(BH89-91 points) There is a gentle touch of wood spice to the very fresh, cool and pure nose that offers up notes of various red berries and a floral hint. There is good detail and a beguiling vibrancy to the saline and intense medium-bodied flavors that possess a firm and solidly persistent finish. If this can add a bit of depth during the course of its evolution it could merit the upper end of my projected range.

The 2012 Nuits St Georges 1er Cru les Bousselots has a mature bouquet, plenty of sous-bois notes: black truffle and Ceps and a sprig of mint. The palate is well balanced and appears to be just beginning to open up: blackberry red currant, sous-bois, quite a firm structure with some austerity coming toward the finish. I was just expecting a little more finesse on the finish.- NM