2017 Maison Leroy Nuits-Saint-Georges 750 ml

The importer gave us 48 hours to decide.

We took one minute.

When presented with the chance to obtain Lalou Bize-Leroy’s Nuits-Saint-Georges, we didn’t hesitate. Even some of the most sophisticated connoisseurs on earth have never tried a Leroy wine, renowned for their sumptuousness, mythical for their rarity. 

Mme. Lalou Bize-Leroy has been making, aging, and selling the very best in Red Burgundy since the early 1950s, and she is still going strong at age 92. She ages then releases wines seemingly at random—when they are ready to drink—and has one of the most impressive libraries of old Burgundy in existence. 

There are U.S. State Department secrets that are easier to divine than the vineyard source and maker of this Nuits-Saint-Georges. Its sole provenance is the wisdom, palate, and elévage skill of one legendary woman. She has uncovered an earthy, brambly, penetrating Nuits in the 2017 vintage, just bristling with redcurrants, black cherries, sweet spicy oak, and sous-bois. It’s rich, long, and immensely satisfying, a wine for a momentous occasion.