Jasper Morris says "Jean-Nicolas (Tardy) considers it half-way between village and premier cru in quality and half-way between Nuits and Vosne in style." That sounds pretty good to me!
To top it off Domaine Coudray-Bizot's Aux Bas de Combe vines are almost a 100 years old making an unusually intense and aromatic wine. Our first vintage of this wine.
Full bottle 1,353 g. Unfined and unfiltered so I am instructed to leave for three weeks after shipment. Grown on the border with Vosne on clayey sand over shite oolite and limestone at 250 m. Vines are 90 years old. Opened after reading How Burgundy explains life by Jana Ganesh in the FT on the capriciousness of burgundy and its similarity to life.
Trsnsparent garnet. Nicely evolved on the nose with all the subtle elements well integrated. Lots of fruit in the raspberry-redcurrant spectrum with real freshness on the admirably long finish. Tannins almost imperceptible, fruit definitely not. Bravo! 17.5/20
At the northern end of Nuits-St-Georges right on the Vosne-Romanee border lies Aux Bas de Combe. It adjoins Nuits-St-Georges 1er Cru Aux Boudots and the Vosne-Romanee 1er Crus Les Malconsorts, Les Chaumes and Clos des Reas. La Tache is only 250 metres away. One has to say this is a pretty good site!
