Decanter Magazine
The Cailles is superb this year, opening up in the glass to reveal notes of wild berries, blackberry, red cherry, game bird, wood smoke and spice. The wine is elegant and expansively full-bodied, its fine-grained tannins largely hidden by a sappy, intense core of fruit. Like Les St-Georges and Les Vaucrains, this is a bit more reticent than the other wines in the cellar this year, but that is only an indication of its seriousness. Drinking Window 2026 - 2045.
Vinous Media - Neal MArtin
The 2018 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Cailles 1er Cru has a complex bouquet, a mélange of red and black fruit, crushed rocks, rose petals, desiccated orange peel and touches of black pepper, all wonderfully detailed and precise. The palate is nicely balanced with an energetic opening, delivering red berry fruit, savory notes of black truffle and meat juices and real sapidity toward the finish. This is a superb Les Cailles, very mercurial in the glass and constantly shape-shifting. Superb.
Wine Advocate - William Kelley
The 2018 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Cailles wafts from the glass with a lovely bouquet of cassis, plums, dark chocolate, grilled squab and smoked meats. Medium to full-bodied, elegantly layered and complete, it's muscular but refined, with a rich chassis of ripe tannin and an ample core of fruit, concluding with a long, perfumed finish.
Domaine Robert Chevillon
