Volnay Pinot Noir

Popped and poured; enjoyed over the course of an hour. The 2023 Volnay pours a deep ruby color with a transparent core; medium viscosity with light staining of the tears. On the nose, the wine is youthful with notes of forest strawberry, raspberry, Bing cherry, red flowers, sous bois and mixed spices. On the palate, the wine is dry with medium tannin and medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is medium+ and the texture is almost chewy. This is a very pretty, but also quite powerful and certainly fleshy Volnay that I expect this will show a lot more with some time in the cellar. Drink now to enjoy its youth and through 2038. Thanks for the assist @Lyle Fass

Such an amazing village wine. Stunning wet earth and sappy mid-season cherries. Just so much aromatic lift and intensity. Unreal on the pop and pour. Gorgeous, tiny berried and very intense sweet fruit. Pure and balanced. Fresh and energetic. Velvety tannins and just terrific balance. So balanced I said it twice. Unbelievably delicious.

Showing so well. Unreal nose of black cherry and black raspberry. Plus a lipstick like intensity. Palate has tons of sweet cherry fruit and an earthy baseline. Terrific inner mouth aromas and velvety, sweet but substantial tannins. Now some lovely Volnay finesse coming through. Score may go higher.

2023 let’s fucking go! Deeply fruited nose with red and black cherries and such clarity. The fruit smells ripe and fleshy but never overdone. It’s just gorgeous. Wild mint, desiccated tree bark, cherry skins and more. Palate is the real deal. Unreal fruit density and purity Superb concentration and the cherry fruit is just perfect. Sappy, silky and fleshy. Lingering. Perfect acidity and balance. With air some lipstick like intensity shows up on the nose. Wonderful, sweet velvety tannins. Explosive with the most unreal tiny berry fruit intensity. Gorgeous. Let’s see what air brings. Super floral aromatically now with air and the minerals and sous bois are shining! The nose has such lift with air and the palate is so juicy with such fleshy fruit that is sweet but also energetic and lean at the same time.