de Montille, Nuits Saint Georges Thorey Vintage:2015

de Montille, Nuits Saint Georges Thorey Vintage:2015(located at the southern end of the Vosne section of Nuits). An earthy and notably spicy dark berry fruit nose trimmed in discreet oak tones merges into rich and sappy flavors that are rich, full and nicely round on the concentrated mid palate underpinned by dense but fine tannins with more obvious depth and length. (89 91) 2014+

the 2014 Proprietary Red needs a little coaxing to reveal slowly unfurling notions of warm black cherries

33% whole clusters)

some of the baby fat has begun to melt away

cool and airy aromas of both red and dark currant

It is very similar to the bottle tasted blind at the Southwold tasting

pit fruits

liquorice and dark chocolate

it is an extraordinarily well-delineated Syrah that should hit its prime in 10-12 years

waxing lyrical when I first tasted it way back in 2000

Opaque ruby

Silky and medium in body

(89-91)/2018+