Fruity Burgundies

I was pleasantly surprised by the up front berry fruit of the Burgundies we tasted in the mainly premier cru dinner we had last week. In the past, even the not so distant past, Burgundies are not really up front fruity, and certainly not fruity enough to be able to identify red berries or more specifically strawberries in either nose or palate. Most of the time, although fruitiness was present, some of the more specific quaities one looks for in Burgundies are those associated with age, especially in older wines, like game, truffle notes etc.

Maybe it's because the wines are from premier cru sites, all of the reds had good up front berry or strawberry notes in both and palate, even the de Villaine Cote Challonnais wine. This may be influence from the New World, but in this instance this influence is certainly for the better. A thought though, would this affect how the wines show say 15 years later, and will we have the same abundance of game, mushroom and truffle notes, now that they are some aromatically confident in their youth?