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Home > France > 2005 Nuits St. Georges, Les Cras, 1er Cru, Bertrand Ambroise (750ml)
2005 Nuits St. Georges, Les Cras, 1er Cru, Bertrand Ambroise (750ml)
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Available Quantity: 8
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Vintage: 2005
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Nuits St. Georges
Vineyard: Les Cras
Designation: 1er Cru
Appellation: Nuits St. Georges
Producer: Bertrand Ambroise
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Sub-Region: Cote de Nuits
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Tasting note: The 2005 Nuits-St.-Georges Aux Cras displays smoke, charred meat and bitter black fruits in the by now familiar Ambroise 2005 mold, approaching hyper-concentration. To that must be added in this instance a bit more overt woodiness and a stony, chalky mineral character appropriate to the site and formidable in its own right. This grips hard enough to perform a tonsillectomy. Time may temper it, but in that case, I suspect one must reckon with at least 5-7 years to make any significant impact. Amboise characterized this year’s fruit as consisting of “perfect berries, solid and well-structured” from which he concluded it should all be de-stemmed and a cautious approach taken to extraction. But caution is relative. Bertrand Ambroise certainly vinifies with a fanatic dedication to quality, but also with no concessions to the faint of heart, and his formidably tannic 2005s will strike some tasters as hyper-concentrated and flirting with over-extraction. Perhaps a bit more refinement and differentiation might have been achieved with a less robust and woody approach? Ambroise works largely with 400-liter barrels in an effort to preserve fruit by diminishing the surface-to-volume ratio and thus the flavoring effects of new wood, but I cannot claim that I would have recognized that fact in the wines themselves. (90-91pts. DS, Wine Advocate)
Tasted: Jun. 2007
Score: 90-91
Drink: N/A
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