2022 Laboure-Roi Nuits-Saint-Georges Burgundy 6pk 6x750ml

Labouré-Roi doesn't source Nuits-Saint-Georges from a distance. They live there.

The house was founded in 1832 and still operates out of Nuits-Saint-Georges itself, the village that gave the entire Côte de Nuits its name. Two centuries of buying fruit in the most fragmented vineyard region on earth teaches you which rows matter. That's the whole argument for a good négociant, and it's why this bottle exists at all.

This is the village bottling. 100% Pinot Noir, destemmed and cold-macerated before fermentation, then raised in 228-liter oak barrels with 30% new wood, full malolactic. Twelve and a half percent alcohol. Under a gram of residual sugar, so it's bone dry.

Round and rich through the middle, then those racy Nuits tannins show up on the finish and remind you where you are. Drink it now with the right dinner, or leave it in the cellar — the producer says it'll hold another decade.

Open it an hour early. Pour it with the roast.