2018 Nuits Saint-Georges Cuvée Fontaine Jacquinots

This year Antoine Gouges was on hand to show me through Domaine Henri Gouge's 2018s. “We started picking the whites on 3 September and the reds on 8 September and finished in five and a half days. We tried to pick fast with a big team. The alcohol levels are between 13.5% and 14.0% apart from Vaucrains and Les Saint-Georges that are a bit higher, around 14.3%. We did the bottling just before harvest to keep the freshness of the fruit. We no longer rack after malolactic and leave the wines on the lees since 2018. The malic acid was quite low so the malolactic was finished in December. I think we will end up drinking the 2017 before the 2018. I like the balance of the vintage and the maturity of the tannins. They should age very well and they are not heavy to me."