Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting in Beaune, the 2013 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Vaucrains has a dusky bouquet with herbaceous red berry fruit, hints of stewed black tea and later a little orange blossom -- all quite mercurial in the glass. The palate is well balanced with crisp acidity, quite dense with good backbone, perhaps undergoing a slightly longer maceration in the winery than its peers, though retaining sufficient freshness and delineation on the typically succulent finish. Tasted September 2016.