2023 Volnay Vendanges Sélectionnées, Michel Lafarge

2023 Volnay Vendanges Sélectionnées, Michel Lafarge

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This comes from the family’s best parcels in the village - in Les Grands Champs, Les Pluchots, La Gigotte, and Ez Echards, all of which border the Premiers Crus just above. It has a dialled up complexity and depth of fruit, with outstanding purity. The wine gives flavours of violets, bitter herbs with a core of supple red cherry fruit. The finish is so detailed and expressive with a subtle tinge of iodine and oyster shell.

Critic score
92/100 info

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Wine details

  • Region & country
    France
  • Grape
    Pinot Noir
  • Maturity
    Young 2027 - 2042info
  • Colour
    Red
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Style
    Still
  • Unit Volume
    Bottle (75cl.)

Tasting notes

The 2023 Volnay Vendanges Sélectionnées comes from four selected parcels located just below the Premier Crus and matured in 10% new oak. This is a level up from the regular cuvée with more fruit intensity and presence, presenting raspberry and wild strawberry laced with undergrowth. The palate is medium-bodied with impressive concentration, gentle grip and a slightly chalky texture toward its finale of frisson and energy. Very fine.

Neal Martin, vinous.com (January 2025)
(91—93)/100

10% new wood. A more definite purple colour. Lively raspberry, such stylish wines, not enormously more grip than the regular, perhaps an extra tannin at the very end, but the velvet covering lasts even longer at the back of the palate. Superb finesse Drink from 2030-2037. Tasted Dec 2024. 5 stars.

Jasper Morris (January 2025)
91—93/100

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