Wine Advocate 90 Points

The 2005 Mercurey La Bois de Lalier Vieilles Vignes displays striking aromas of ripe black cherry and walnut oil, saturates the palate with black cherry, nut oils and fresh meatiness, and finishes with sweet, ripe fruit accented by attractively bitter suggestions of toasted nuts and cherry pit. This is a broader, more obviously rich wine than Dureuil’s vintage 2005 Rullys, but no less clear and pure. -Wine Advocate

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Wine Advocate 91 Points

From Les Cloux and Margotey, Dureuil’s 2005 Rully 1er Cru offers tart red raspberry laced with ginger and hints of flowers and honey in the nose. Displaying on the palate sappy, energetic intensity of bright fruit along with rich marrowy underlying meatiness, this finishes with precision and formidable length, and with a bit more richness than the other Rullys (none of which, incidentally, are much over 13% in alcohol). -Wine Advocate

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Wine Advocate 94 Points

$62.99

From a choice section of 65-year-old vines above Premeaux Prissey acquired through his in-laws, Dureuil’s 2005 Nuits-St.-Georges Clos des Argilieres displays aromas raw of raw beef liver that approaches Cornas-like intensity and vivid bloodiness, along with intensely ripe black cherry, wood smoke, and distinctly wet stone minerality. A similar fruit-animal-mineral trio – augmented by pungent brown spices – dominates this wine’s intensely rich and sappy but firmly structured, dense palate, and these flavors cling with memorable tenacity. Lock this away for 7-10 years. -Wine Advocate