Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges, Premier Cru ‘Les Didiers, Cuvée Fagon’, 2023 - Magnum

Est. delivery early 2026

"Magnificent colour. Slightly discreet nose but with great depth, notes of plum, ripe prune, minty freshness. Lovely concentration on the palate, deep and balanced"
Our note

A monopole owned by the Hospices which is next to (and was previously considered part of) Nuits-Saint-George's widely acknowledged “Grand Cru” - ‘Les Saint Georges’ and shares the same soil type – “big stones of white oolite are mixed in with brown clay topsoil, over a bed of hard Comblanchien limestone” (Jasper Morris). The wines here, like those of their famous neighbour, typically make powerful, well-structured and long-lived wines, but the vintage has brought out great aromatic complexity and freshness, sweeter fruit and rose petal perfumes, as well as a plushness to the tannins. Laurent Delaunay, our chosen éléveur has called 2023 "an absolutely outstanding vintage, one of the best I have seen in my life.”
 
Three different cuvées are produced from the 2.45ha vineyard – Cabet (from forty-five year old vines), Fagon (from seventy-five year old vines), and Jacques Duret (a blend of the two). All three cuvées stood out in the 2023 but Cuvée Fagon is the top wine from this famous plot.