(Originally published 1 February 2017.)
I’ve been reporting since the renewal of this estate about 5 years ago under Maxime Cheurlin on the wines of note. Starting at a high level (with old vines and great terroirs), they have been improving each year.
I’ve been reporting since the renewal of this estate about 5 years ago under Maxime Cheurlin on the wines of note. Starting at a high level (with old vines and great terroirs), they have been improving each year.
Harvesting here took place between 12 and 14 September. Wines that had whole clusters in them are Vosne-Chaumes, Chambolle-Feusselottes, and Echézeaux.
Maxime has added wines as a négociant and in the future will be adding more, both as a négociant and as a proprietor (I believe that the estate started with 5.5 ha when he began and he told me last fall that it was now up to 11 ha, although 4 ha in the Hautes-Côtes would require new planting). Wines below marked with an asterisk (*) are from bought-in grapes will be sold under the name Maxime Cheurlin-Noëllat
2015 Bourgogne-Hautes Côtes de Nuits*
Here we have wine made from purchased grapes. The wine shows very pure red currant fruits and it is long, elegant, and pure. (88-91)
2015 Gevrey-Chambertin En Champs*
This Gevrey has strawberry fruit with energy and Gevrey wildness. (89-92)
2015 Vosne-Romanée
The village Vosne is smooth, round, and spicy with dark and red fruits and a velvet texture. It is classic Vosne. (89-93)
2015 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Feusselottes*
The Feusselottes features red currant fruit with delicacy, great finesse, and good length. (90-94)
2015 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Chaumes
The Vosne-Chaumes is truffly with red fruits, finesse, intensity, a medium-light weight, length, and some tannins. (91-94)
2015 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Petits Monts
Noëllat’s parcel of Petits Monts is in the corner right by Cros Parantoux. The wine has spicy red fruits with good structure, length, energy, and some tannins. (91-95)
2015 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots
The Boudots has the creamy texture of Boudots and red currant flavors with length, lightness, and finesse. (91-95)
2015 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Aux Cras
The Cras is from the lower part of the vineyard. The wine is creamy and nervy and a bit bigger and richer, but also finer, than the Boudots and with darker fruit. (91-95)
2015 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Beaux Monts
All over, I found that 2015 is an outstanding year for Beaux Monts, and that certainly is true at this address. The wine shows the minerality of Beaux Monts with finesse, penetration, concentration, red berries, and excellent length. (93-97)
2015 Echézeaux
The Echézeaux is creamy, long, and elegant with red fruits. (92-96)
2015 Grands-Echézeaux
Last, the Grands-Echézeaux shows the animal aromas typical of the vineyard. The mouth shows some of the sucrosity in texture that I frequently encountered in the vintage, excellent minerality, dark berry fruit, some of the licorice that marks Grands-Échézeaux’s terroir, length, and finesse. (93-97)