The Maladiere climat is located mid-slope, between 300 and 320 metres altitude, with the domaine's 5ha of vines including some vines older than 50 years. The mix of browner, clay based soils on the western side and the higher limestone content in the east results in well-structured and appealing wines with complex aromas from long oak ageing.
The 2020 Nuits-Saint-Georges Vieilles Vignes is structured and concentrated, bursting with aromas of dark berries, plums, rose petals and sweet soil tones. Medium to full-bodied, deep and lively, it's well worth seeking out, but it will require more patie...
Here the nose if quite firmly reduced and revealing basically nothing today. This equally broad-shouldered flavors aren't quite as dense but they're certainly finer with good minerality and lift on the palate coating, balanced and beautifully persistent f...
A similar aromatic profile to the Clos de la Servoisine adds a touch of poached plum to the blend. On the palate, the medium-bodied flavors are even more refined with a prominent bead of minerality adding a sense of lift to the youthfully austere, compact...
A timid but perfumed nose speaks of softly spicy ripe red berry aromas where hints of smoke and earth lurk in the background. There is again excellent volume to the succulent and seductive yet equally powerful flavors that flash a bead of minerality on th...
An intensely floral, especially rose petal-suffused nose speaks of a ripe mix of red currant, black cherry and whiffs of kirsch and warm earth. Yet again the medium-bodied flavors possess a gorgeous texture with good power that seems to build on the dusty...
The more inert nature of the holding container is in evidence as the nose is moderately reduced. The other side of that though is that the mouthfeel is even sleeker and finer with excellent underlying tension and detail to the similarly scaled flavors tha...