The 2019 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots is spectacular. Bursting from the glass with aromas of cassis, plums, orange rind and exotic spices, framed by a discreet application of creamy new oak, the wine is medium to full-bodied, broad and textural, with a velvety attack that segues into a deep, concentrated, layered mid-palate and a long, resonant finish.

The 2018 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots is superb, unwinding in the glass with youthfully reserved suggestions of blackberries, smoke, rose petals, spices and grilled squab. Medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, it's taut and coiled, with huge reserves of concentration and beautifully powdery tannins. This will be notably long lived.

The 2017 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots is one of the more brooding, powerful wines in the cellar this year, opening in the glass with notes of cassis, dark berries, smoked duck, spices and coniferous forest floor. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, layered and muscular, with powdery structuring tannins, lively acids and a long, carnal finish.

More reserved than the Vignerondes, the 2016 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots unfurls in the glass with a brooding bouquet of wild berries, rich soil tones, Asian spices, dark chocolate and grilled game. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and broad, with considerable reserves of concentration and extract, framed by a large-scaled chassis of tannin that asserts itself on the long, stony finish.

The 2015 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots from Lalou Bize-Leroy is an extraordinary rendition of this great vineyard, opening in the glass with a deep bouquet of sweet spices, dark fruit—plum, cherry—and rose petal that's both more exotic and less savory than this year's Vignerondes. On the palate, the wine is immensely concentrated, with grand cru depth and dimension, its authoritative chassis of fine-grained tannin only asserting itself on the firm, saline finish. In contrast to the giving Vignerondes, this Boudots is decidedly more brooding and structurally reserved, and it will need a decade in the cellar and benefit from longer.