Best from 2015 through 2025
Merlot and Malbec are aged 21 months in (50% new) French oak
Much tighter in the mouth than the Chambolle villages but already wonderfully suave and perfumed
Many people's fame fades with their epitaph
The 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape (80% Grenache
Louis Boillot, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Les Prulieres 2017 LOIRE LUXE Best from 2015 through 2025Importer's note; Nuits Saint Georges has a reputation for robust wines with coarse tannins, but there are plenty of exceptions to the rule. Take Pierre Boillots Les Pruliers, which is quite the oppositeits floral, finessed, and delicately detailed, thanks to vines that are more than a century old, planted in 1911. In its youth, budding aromatics of rose and black cherry stand out, but over time, it will mature into a woodsy, truffled beauty with a