2008 Nuits-St Georges, Les Allots, Benjamin Leroux

An aromatically-seductive Nuits-St Georges, Benjamin Leroux's Les Allots shows a wonderfully pure and spicy nose that brimms with blue berry fruit and overlaid with earth and game notes that continue onto the fleshy, plush and inviting palate, all wrapped in an impeccably balanced and persistent finish. This is a rubust wine, with polished tannins, yet none of the occasional dry tannins of Nuits.