Domaine Guy & Yvan Dufouleur, Nuits-Saint-Georges « Aux Saint-Julien » 2022 – Nuits-Saint-Georges

The wine has a pale ruby ​​color. On the nose, the wine is reserved and requires aeration. It then expresses juicy and gourmet fruity notes, with a hint of roasted fruits: crushed wild strawberry, juicy morello cherry, crushed raspberry, wild blackberry and red currants. We also find delicate herbal notes (peppermint, blackcurrant leaf in the background), sweet spices (liquorice, nutmeg, a very light touch of vanilla), toasted hazelnut (with a hint of caramel) and a gourmet hint of chocolate plum. On the palate, the wine is rather tight on the attack, but offers juiciness, freshness and accuracy as it opens. It expresses notes of tangy strawberry, raspberry, red cherry, blueberry, damson plum, cranberries and bird cherry which bring a good bitterness and the tannic touch on the palate. Then we find the tasty notes of dried mint, rosemary, a hint of blackcurrant leaf, as well as spices (licorice, white pepper, nutmeg) and a hint of coffee bitterness. Good length, with a tannic touch and a good bitterness of bird cherry on the persistence, structured tannins, slightly grainy, but not drying and a refreshing acidity. The wine needs time to open up.