DOMAINE HENRI GOUGES NUIT ST GEORGES CLOS DES PORRETS 1ER CRU 2020

020 1er NSG 'Clos des Porrets' Monopole 93BH/JMDomaine Henri GougesNuits-Saint-Georges$114.99 net Clos des Porrets is a 9-acre Premier Cru (1er) Monopole vineyard, meaning this is their own walled in vineyard that they have exclusive ownership and use of. No one else can make a wine from this vineyard. The site is located just below Perrieres and was a former quarry for the village of NSG. Soils consist of calcareous limestone and clay on top of a bedrock of the pink stony limestone 'Premeaux', very complex geologically, thus great for vines to grow complex fruit from! Highly structured in their youth, the wines at year 5 or so in a typical vintage start to reveal their true, finessed expression.90-93 points BurghoundVery ripe yet still reasonably fresh aromas are comprised by notes of roasted plum, black cherry, cassis and earth. The dense, powerful and muscular broad-shouldered flavors are supported by a very firm tannic spine on the robust, serious and very compact finale. This is