As readers will remember, when yields are small, Lalou Bize-Leroy opts to assemble the lieux-dits Aux Allots, Aux Bas de Combe and Lavières, and that's the case for her 2019 Nuits-Saint-Georges. Opening in the glass with aromas of sweet red berries, plums, warm spices, loamy soil, black truffle and orange oil, it's medium to full-bodied, ample and layered, with a rich core of fruit, supple tannins and a seamless, giving profile.

As is often the case when yields are small, Lalou Bize-Leroy opted to assemble the lieux-dits Aux Allots, Aux Bas de Combe and Lavières into a single cuvée of 2018 Nuits-Saint-Georges. Mingling dark, plummy fruit tones with hints of spices, grilled squab and raw cocoa, it's medium to full-bodied, broad and enveloping, with a lively core of fruit framed by rich, powdery tannins, concluding with a long, sapid finish.

Once again, Bize-Leroy opted to assemble the lieux-dits Aux Allots, Aux Bas de Combe and Lavières into a single 2017 Nuits-Saint-Georges. The wine is showing well, opening up to reveal notes of cassis, grilled squab, rose hips and spices, followed by a medium to full-bodied, layered and attractively concentrated, energetic palate structured around fine and powdery tannins. The finish is long and sapid.

This year, Bize-Leroy once again opted to assemble the lieux-dits Aux Allots, Aux Bas de Combe and Lavières into a single 2016 Nuits-Saint-Georges, and the wine is incredible, unfurling in the glass with aromas of dark berries, pencil lead, dried flowers, rose hip and rich soil tones. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, immensely concentrated and intense, with a deep, multidimensional core, vibrant acids and a long, resonant finish.

Aromas of dark berries, cassis, rich soil tones and grilled meats introduce the 2015 Nuits-Saint-Georges, a deep and full-bodied wine that's envelopingly textural, its generous core of ripe, expressive fruit largely concealing the wine's powdery structuring tannins. Sapid and earthy, this is classic Nuits that is still not really ready for prime-time drinking.