Domaine Henri Gouges Nuits-St-Georges Les Pruliers 2016

 The bouquet here is pure and classy, offering up scents of sweet dark berries, black plums, raw cocoa, pigeon, dark soil tones and a hint of cola in the upper register. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and beautifully sappy at the core, with fine transparency, suave, fine-grained tannins, tangy acids and outstanding focus and grip on the very long and nascently complex finish.

 A beautifully layered nose offers up notes of both red and black pinot fruit, spice, warm earth and evident sauvage nuances. The rich, delicious and caressing medium weight plus flavors possess a velvety mid-palate mouthfeel that contrasts somewhat with the very firm, saline and lingering finish. This is muscular but not really rustic.