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• Matt Neel Likes this wine:

  March 18, 2015 - Wineberserkers Eat Duck in Midtown (Peking Duck House (Midtown), NYC): Pale ruby. Freaking textbook nose: roses and iron, delicate and enchantingly perfumed, a jewel caught in a web of precious minerals; gushing with friendly red berry fruit and in no way overripe. Totally primary, of course, but wowza it's gorgeous. The palate is perfection: perfect balance, pure and bright; cherry and a touch of confection. Very long, indeed, but far more delicate than I anticipated though exceptionally persistent. This is a great wine, a Volnay exactly calculated for a palate like mine (which loves it some Volnay, lord knows...). This thing is going to bloom into a ravishing belle with time in the cellar.

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• Charlie Carnes commented:

  3/23/15, 6:00 PM - Matt, that's a damn compelling note, I am glad I have three bottles. Young Lafarge... I like your "friendly red berry fruit" description.

• Matt Neel commented:

  3/23/15, 6:06 PM - Thanks, Charlie -- I found it to be a damn compelling wine! And that came after a lot of much bigger wines. Just keep in mind this one is on the pretty, pure, delicate side of the Volnay flipping coin -- at least that night, anyway. A 2008 tasted next to it was much bigger, meatier, and more austere. Also terrific, and maybe more of what one expects from the property. But I liked the 2009 more and would LOVE to have 3 bottles in the cellar. Well played!

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