2012 Blanc Nuits Saint-Georges Les Perrières 1er Cru

This is a fabulous set of wines from Gouges. Overall yields are down 20-25%, which is not too bad within the context of the year. Gregoire Gouges gave the 2012s about 15 days on the skins and kept temperatures high with the objective of giving the wines as much sweetness and roundness as possible. As always, the wines here are made with 100% destemmed fruit. Like many producers, Gouges added that the fruit required minimal sorting. At the time of my visit the Bourgogne Rouge and the two whites had been bottled. The rest of the Pinots were racked from barrel into steel and back into barrel, where the wines were aging on their fine lees when I saw them. Bottling was scheduled for January-March 2014.