Domaine Henri Gouges Nuits-St-Georges Les Pruliers 2018

The bouquet is very pure and already shows lovely complexity, delivering a combination of black plums, sweet dark berries, woodsmoke, a touch of anise, complex soil tones, bitter chocolate, pigeon and a topnote of sweet herbs. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and shows off marvelous mid-palate depth, with superb balance and grip, ripe, seamless tannins and a very, very long, very classy finish. All this needs is time to blossom. 

The 2018 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Pruliers 1er Cru has a little more intensity and delineation than the Clos des Porrets, the red cherry and crushed strawberry fruit laced with sous-bois notes. The medium-bodied palate offers fine tannins and more density and energy than the Clos des Porrets. The pretty dark cherry, raspberry and white pepper finish does not overstay its welcome.