Dense dark purple with significant oak, which it can handle. A rich full mouthful, very Nuits in style accompanied by some lifted Vosne type heady aromatics. The oak integrates very well and I do not mind the strength of the tannins.

The 2015 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Chaignots from the Mugneret sisters is glorious, offering up a deep and complex bouquet of raspberry, plum, dark spice, wood smoke, black chocolate and grilled squab. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied and expansive, with a supple frame of tannin, a deep core of succulently ripe fruit and a long, intense and youthfully tight-knit finish. This has great potential and will amply reward the patient. - WK

The 2015 Chaignots is really lovely, offering up plenty of ripe fruit, fine typicité and a generous, but substantial structural chassis for long-term cellaring. The exuberant bouquet jumps from the glass in a blaze of black plums, black cherries, raw cocoa, pigeon, sweet nutskin, dark soil tones and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, beautifully balanced and sappy at the core, with fine soil signature, ripe, suave tannins and lovely focus and grip on the long, classy and still fairly youthful finish. A completely charming young Nuits!

A distinctly spicy nose offers up ripe aromas of cassis, plum, mocha and violet that are trimmed in subtle earth nuances. There is fine volume and mid-palate density to the strikingly rich and suave medium-bodied flavors that display excellent persistence and complexity on the firm and lightly mineral-suffused finish that, like the Vignes Rondes, flashes a hint of dryness though in this case, I suspect that it will eventually come together and my rating offers the benefit of the doubt.