Jean Chauvenet Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru 'Les Perrieres' 2020 Catalonia and well-resolved tannins that carry

and well-resolved tannins that carry through a long

as well as an elemental harmony

emphasizing drive and lift over layered density

2 hectares in Les Chenevery planted between 1936 and 1942

this exceptionally complex and age-worthy Zierfandler hails from 50-year-old vines planted in the Mandel-Höh vineyard (“Mandel” means “almond tree”—and where almonds thrive

Jean Chauvenet Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru 'Les Perrieres' 2020 Catalonia and well-resolved tannins that carryAs the Chauvenet holdings move in a southerly direction, we have the pleasure of accessing wine from the regal cru of Perrieres, a profoundly stony site that produces a wine of great breed and class; the domaine controls a quarter hectare of this renowned lieu dit. A wine with a fine capacity to age, a process that reveals a most complex wine of excellent balance; one of the most elegant and intellectual wines of this part of the Cote de Nuits.