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97 JG.
"The 2012 Les St. Georges is an utterly complete and compelling example of this great terroir, and if I were amongst the vignerons lobbying for the promotion of this vineyard to grand cru status, I might just trot out bottles of this wine and the 2010 version from the Chevillons to show just how magical this vineyard can be. Whether the 2012 will match (or surpass) the 2010 version here is a question that only time will tell in the sweetness of time, but this is certainly going to rank right up there with the greatest wines Bertrand Chevillon has ever fashioned during his long and illustrious career. The brilliant nose delivers a complex blend of cherries, strawberries, red plums, woodsmoke, a glorious base of soil, incipient notes of venison, nutskin and a gentle base of vanillin oak. Again, I am struck by just how beautifully red fruity the Les St. Georges is here this year, as this too is usually a very black fruity wine out of the blocks. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, very transparent and multi-dimensional, with a fine, sappy core of fruit, stunning transparency, fine-grained tannins and a very long, pure and still quite primary finish. Pure magic." John Gilman, View From the Cellar #48, Dec 2013 |