The 2017 Domaine Gouges Pruliers has a lovely sappiness to its personality on both the nose and palate, but is still a quite reserved and structured young wine (as one would expect from this terroir at this domaine!) and the wine has enormous potential. The bouquet delivers a fine blend of black cherries, black raspberries, bitter chocolate, gamebird, an excellent base of dark soil tones, woodsmoke, vanillin oak and an incipient note of cola in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and again, quite rock solid at the core, with its full-bodied format supporting ripe, seamless tannins and outstanding focus and grip on the long, youthfully complex and perfectly balanced finish. Just add time!