Nuits Saint Georges Aux Boudots, Domaine Meo Camuzet 2019 (OCC 6)

Description

By Decanter in 2020 (D95)

Méo owns over 1ha of vines in Les Boudots, just over the border from Vosne-Romanée Malconsorts, in the village of Nuits-St-Georges. This combines the elegance of Vosne and the structure of Nuits to give a wine with rich, plummy fruit, an earthy undertone, and an opulent structure on the palate that combines density with well-managed tannins. The balance is strikingly good between the velvety texture, rich fruit and firm structure; it shows well now, but will improve considerably with age.

By Jasper Morris in 2020 (JM93-95)

Rich deep purple. The fruit is powerful right across the piece but this has taken the heat a little bit more, at least in fruit profile, compared to Aux Murgers. Certainly it is darker and there is a little toastiness at the finish, with the barrel making its presence felt. Nonetheless there is notable power here and this should develop into an impressive wine.

By Wine Advocate in 2021 (WA92-94)

Another real success is the 2019 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Aux Boudots, a lovely wine bursting with notes of plums, wild berries, exotic spices, peonies and blood orange. Medium to full-bodied, velvety and concentrated, it’s elegantly fleshy, with lively acids, melting tannins and a penetrating finish. Jean-Nicolas Méo began picking on September 13, observing that “everything was ripe at once this year,” and that alcohol levels—for the most part, around 14%—were a little higher than he would have wished for. Yet the wines in the glass are hard to fault: Méo excelled in 2018, and his 2019s are even more structurally refined and vibrant. As I’ve written before, Méo’s wines see quite a long élevage, and they can often be a little structural and introverted in the fall following the vintage, but these 2019s, just like the 2018s at the same stage last year, were remarkably open for inspection. Displaying superb concentration and mid-palate amplitude without any particular perception of heaviness, I found much to admire; and, in summation, this is a very fine portfolio that, when taken as a set, appears to match or surpass what was achieved here in 2018.