1996 | Domaine Hudelot Noellat | Romanee St Vivant

The youthful nose offers up a blend of red berries, woodsmoke, cinnamon, sandalwood and cedary wood.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Cool, complex, spicy and elegant aromas that display some secondary development though notably less than the prior bottles. There is good punch, detail and intensity to the round, delicious and equally complex flavors that are on the lighter side but not dilute, all wrapped in a solidly persistent finish that displays relatively little of the typical '96 tanginess. I very much like the classy mouth feel and while this is not especially concentrated, it is well-balanced and really very pretty.

• Vinous: The 1996 Hudelot Romanée-St.-Vivant is really quite a closed wine today, but with excellent promise readily apparent below the surface. The youthful nose offers up a blend of red berries, woodsmoke, cinnamon, sandalwood and cedary wood. On the palate the wine is fullish, tight and tangy, with solid depth in the mid-palate, and impressive length on the bouncy finish. With air this wine showed outstanding transparency down to the soil, and became more and more interesting.

Producer Information

Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat is a Burgundy producer of high-quality Pinot Noir from prestigious sites in the Côte de Nuits. The domaine was founded in Vougeot by Alain Hudelot in 1962, although the Hudelot family can trace its history in Burgundy back to before the French Revolution. Hudelot married Odile Noëllat in the 1970s, which increased the domaine's holdings – the Noëllat family has its own significant history in Burgundy. In 2008, Alain retired and his grandson, Charles van Canneyt, took over running the estate alongside cellarmaster Vincent Munier. The domaine has roughly 10 hectares (24 acres) of vineyards with plots in four villages (Chambolle-Musigny, Vougeot, Vosne-Romanée and Nuits-Saint-Georges) and in 15 different designated sites. The highest tier of Pinot Noir comes from the grand cru vineyards Richbourg, Romanée-Saint-Vivant and Clos de Vougeot. Hudelot-Noëllatt has a reputation for high vine ages, which it maintains through methodical replanting. The average age is more than 50 years, with several vineyard plantings dating back to 1920, including parcels in Romanée-Saint-Vivant.

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