Volnay Premier Cru 'Clos des Chênes', Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard, 2020
Volnay Premier Cru 'Clos des Chênes', Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard, 2020
- Red Still
- Pinot Noir
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Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard is new to our offering this year and what a year to bring them in. This Domaine that covers a huge range of villages specialises in whites and over the past decade have raised their stock exponentially. With high acclaim from the 2014 and 2017 vintages, the 2020 has once again suited their style.
The wines have a clear purity and minerality as well as a lovely weight and richness of fruit. The focus and precision is what makes them really stand out and with Celine Fontaine and her husband Fred Robert (formerly of Armand Rousseau) at the helm, you best keep a close eye on how high this Domaine will climb!
Optimal drinking window: Now - 2044
What the critics say:
"The 2020 Volnay Clos des Chênes 1er Cru has a well-defined bouquet with dark cherries, blueberry and violet aromas, almost Cote de Nuits-like in style. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red berry fruit, veins of blueberry, lightly spiced with white pepper and a touch of clove towards the finish. Great length here. Superb."
"A relatively cool and very pretty if restrained nose reluctantly reveals its blend of red and dark raspberry, spice and much more discreet earth influences. The delicious, intense and voluminous larger-scaled flavors possess a succulent mid-palate thanks to the abundant dry extract that also helps to buffer the firm, serious and youthfully austere finale. This could use better depth, but the underlying material appears to be more than up to the task. Lovely and this too is worth consideration. 'Outstanding'"
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