2012 Maison Ilan Volnay 1er Cru Les Robardelles

Community Tasting Notes (11) Median Score: 90 points

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  5/15/2022 - DougLee wrote: 90 Points

  Disappeared very quickly at the family dinner. Small sample: smoothed tannin and crunchy red berry fruit with plenty of acidity. Very good effort.

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  5/15/2022 - DAN BAILEY Likes this wine:

  Sometimes you just want Miss Right Now rather than Miss Right! Definitely the case with this wine. Uncorked and drunk over the next hour. Disappeared between 2 of us as fast as I can recall any wine doing in recent years. Perhaps a tad warm on serving which caused the predominantly red fruit to show in a very slightly stewed/imprecise fashion. Otherwise, a simply delicious/sexy rendition of volnay.

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  8/10/2021 - Cote d'Or wrote:

  Tasted over 2 hrs
  -med dark red
  -red fruit cola mild reduction wet stone
  -barely med acidity, med/med- weight dark cherry and cola with a creamy top note and some noticeable oak accompanies the med tannins, not getting any Brett features on this bottle
  -this is pretty decent overall if not very Volnay; ie it is a better pinot than it is a Burg

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  11/17/2019 - Cote d'Or wrote:

  Tasted over 2 hrs and day 2
  -med red with mild bricking
  -moderately expressive sweet dark cherry coffee residue a little bit of wet stone
  -med acidity, med weight and concentration full soft diffuse mouthfeel with a creamy top note overlying ripe dark cherry and floral element, med- tannins; strong roasted grain element I equate with Brettanomyces becomes prominent on day 2
  -pleasant if a bit new world-ish and lacking a bit of focus and structure

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  1/5/2019 - DAN BAILEY wrote:

  Drunk over 2 nights. Quite dark coloured and dark fruited for a volnay on the first night. Quite similar to the mazoyeres in many ways. Different beast on the 2nd night, particularly the warmer 1st glass. Explosive nose of sweet perfumed red fruits that really followed through on the palate. Quite impressive. Cooler second glass was more like the first night’s showing. I’d say this could very much be enjoyed now with some air or held for a while.

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