Robert Chevillon - Nuits-St.-Georges Les Pruliers 2017

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Decanter: 95 Points

One of an impressive array of premiers crus from the south side of Nuits, the Chevillons' parcel in Pruliers extends to 0.6ha and is 55 years old. It's a wine of considerable freshness, detail and precision, showing floral aromas, some sweet spices, succulent red berry fruit and a focussed, chalky finish. (Drink between 2023-2028)

A View from the Cellar: 93 Points

The 2017 Pruliers may be the only wine in the Chevillon cellars this year that is not a quintessential expression of its terroir, but I mean this in a good way, as this is normally the most black fruity premier cru in the lineup, but this year it is bursting with atypical red fruity charm and sappiness! The bouquet is beautiful and very, very polite for young Pruliers, wafting from the glass in a refined blend of red and black cherries, red plums, raw cocoa, gamebird, dark soil tones, nutskin and a beautifully-measured base of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and properly structured, with a superb core of fruit, lovely transparency, beautiful focus and grip and a very long, complex and ripely tannic finish. Another superb wine in the making. (Drink between 2027-2065)

Vinous: 92-94 Points

The 2017 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Pruliers 1er Cru has an elegant, mineral-driven bouquet that offers more rose petal aromas as it blossoms with aeration. There is exquisite red fruit here, the terroir really shining through. The palate is clean and precise, showing a little more body than the Les Roncières, and a tad more richness comes through on the finish. Great potential and very classy. (Drink between 2022-2042)