Name: Jean-Jacques Confuron Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru "Aux Boudots" 2012
Brand: Vins Rare
SKU: 3926
Price: 119.99 USD
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Reduction completely dominates the nose. There is excellent concentrationto the suave, round and highly seductive medium-bodied flavors that possessgenuinely excellent depth and plenty of inner mouth perfume on the balancedand beautifully long finish. While Boudots is typically a moderatelypowerful wine, in 2012 there is more finesse and refinement than usual. Well worth considering. Burghound 91-93

Producer note: Alain Meunier noted that the 2012 vintage "started relatively earlyand we had correct weather until the flowering and it continued pretty muchuntil the end of July. August was on again/off again and it wasn't untilthe 8th of September where we finally got excellent conditions. Betweenthe uneven flowering and then uneven weather patterns it's not surprisingthat the fruit maturities were uneven as well. We did a lot of leafpulling to improve the ventilation so that the mildew would have troublespreading. When we finally started picking it was very choppy meaning thatwe would pick one day, stop for another and then restart depending onconditions as well as the maturity levels in any given parcel. Howeverinconvenient such an approach might have been it was effective because weobtained excellent maturities as we were able to eliminate the under ripeberries through a careful sorting process. The fruit was clean and ripe aspotential alcohols were in the 12 to 13% range which is plenty for thestyle of wine that we wish to craft. We did our traditional vinificationas there was no reason not to given the very good phenolic maturities. Interms of the style of the wines they remind me of a more concentratedversion of 2000." I found the Confuron '12s to be variable with someexcellent wines and others being only average in the context of theirappellations. As to the now in-bottle '11s, revisited below, in most casesthey have performed at or near the top of my original estimated ranges. They are most impressive and worth your attention.

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