The pure, spiced red and black fruit is tense yet suave with a savoury finish. Complex already but needs time to show its best. From an estate that always gives great interpretations of the varied terroirs of Nuits-St-Georges. Read more at https://www.decanter.com/wine-reviews/france/burgundy/domaine-henri-gouges-nuits-st-georges-1er-cru-vaucrains-10305#ry2OLIXmb8c6wK5S.99

When I commented to Grégory about the early elegance that the 2014 Vaucrains was showing out of cask this year, he commented that “it is funny, but in some years, the Vaucrains is completely closed when young, and the Les St. Georges is more open, and in other years, it is the complete inverse, as is the case with the 2014s.” This is a great Vaucrains in the making, as it offers up a very refined bouquet of black cherries, dark berries, gamebird, stony soil tones, woodsmoke, fresh herbs and a topnote of French Roast. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and impressively pure on the attack, with a sappy core, lovely soil inflection, ripe, well-integrated tannins and a long, youthful and very, very promising finish. (Drink between 2027-2075)

(90 - 92 points) The 2014 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru les Vaucrains, cropped at 26 hectoliters per hectare, was just a little loose-knit on the nose when I tasted it at the domaine, perhaps missing the cohesion of the Pruliers. The palate pulls things together with slightly savory red berry fruit, fine tannin and well judged acidity. There is a chalky note coming through on the finish and a spiciness that comes through on the aftertaste. Again, classic in style, at the moment the palate is leading the way and waiting for the nose to catch up.- NM