Talk to people who've been collecting Burgundy for twenty or thirty years about which wines age the longest, which producers are the most consistent, and Chevillon's name always pops up. Chevillon is a lesson in Nuits-St-Georges, in all its meaty, wild, textured glory.
In the context of Burgundy, for the quality, they are some of the strongest values around.
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The truth is that without any Grand Crus and without any catchy taglines to be marketed with, Nuits-St-Georges cruises under the radar. This belies the fact that great Nuits-St-Georges can be just as haunting as any wine made in this fabled land. The best rival Grand Crus in longevity.
This has been one of our favorite vintages for red Burgundy in the past twenty years. The 2010s have clarity and concentration that amaze. Bertrand Chevillon himself called the 2010 lineup "linear and precise, with excellent energy and displaying the underlying terroirs perfectly." It probably goes without saying that Chevillon's 2010s are utterly brilliant.
Chevillon has produced the benchmark Vaucrains for decades. Their Vaucrains is sourced from 80-year-old vines that produce a powerful, incredibly deep, mineral, and sauvage wine. Yet, for all of its intensity, Chevillon's Vaucrains is marked by a clarity and precision that only the best Burgundies achieve.
The 2010 Vaucrains is simply stunning. It's one of the best versions of the wine that we've tasted in the past couple of decades. It has a magic combination of clarity, structure, and outrageous complexity.
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Ian McFadden
Director, Fine & Rare
Crush Wine & Spirits
Pre-arrival - Limited Quantities
2010 Chevillon Nuits-St-George 1er Cru Les Vaucrains750 ml
Burghound: "This is fantastically complex with a kaleidoscopically broad-ranging nose of markedly ripe dark berry fruit, earth and sauvage hints. The palate impression is classic Vaucrains with its rich, full-bodied, intense and overtly robust flavors that culminate in a hugely long yet quite finely balanced finish. This is indisputably a big wine but one that stops short of being forbidding as the copious dry extract buffers the explicitly firm supporting tannins. Still, this strikingly good effort is clearly going to require an extended cellar snooze. In a word, marvelous."