Michel Lafarge, Volnay Clos Chenes

Michel Lafarge, Volnay Clos Chenes(from 45+ year old vines that sit just above Champans). A brooding but wonderfully fresh nose mingles notes of various red berries, spice, earth and plenty of floral influences. The sleek, intense and muscular largescaled flavors possess excellent power before culminating in a stony and hugely long finish where the only nit is a touch of warmth. This too is explicitly built for the long haul and is a wine thats going to need at least a decade first.

but there the style of the wine is more naturally in line with that style than the straight Barolo

persistent and beautifully complex finish

An exceptionally ripe well-layered nose is comprised by notes of mocha

floral and racy

This too is explicitly built for the long haul and is a wine that’s going to need at least a decade first

(93-96)/2024+

great Bric del Fiasc

There is something just a little “Oriental” about the style of this Potensac that delivers impressive body and grip on the finish

but the purity of the fruit is impossible to miss even at this early stage

As I wrote earlier this year

My impression is that the Costa Russi and Conteisa are the most likely of these 2007s to offer the widest drinking windows throughout their lives with a minimum of cellaring

There is an equally cool character to the vibrant