Gros Nuits-St-Georges 2020

At the Domaine Michel Gros, 2020 brings another stellar lineup of beautiful red Burgundies, very much in the style of the superb 2019s. The 2020 growing season in the Côte de Nuits was much like 2019: hot, sunny, dry, and very early.

The villagel-level Nuits-St-Georges is an assemblage from lieux dits near the town’s border with Vosne-Romanée; it has an aromatic profile that always includes a whisper of  Vosne’s famous spice, and in this vintage there is plenty more. In the 2020 Burghound found “rich, ripe, palate coating and seductively textured” flavors, among them “aromas of chocolate, cassis and dark currant liqueur” along with “discreet though perceptible” wood influence.