2005 Volnay Premier Cru Tasting and Lunch (San Francisco): Ruby. Stemmy scents with warm, ripe fruit in the background. More soil comes through over time. At first, rather stern, blockish, simple black fruit, but this loosens up, revealing real sweetness, excellent acidity, and a lovely soil finish. Now is probably not the optimal time, but significant potential.
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Quite dark. Mentholated aromas of candied cherry in a wet, magical forest. Full, dense, rich palate with layers of crystalline sour candies to go with the haunting, delacy of Volnay. Amazing pasty pinot sap that only comes from great burgundy. 1+ minute finish. A multi-wow wine. I wish I had more. Some say '05 was too ripe but this has perfect balance. I wish I could find more. Looks like this isn't available at all anymore.
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A nose of dark red fruits and sappy varietal notes, then a finely textured palate, consistently weighted and quite firm. The texture of the palate lifted it but the lack of any real interest in the bouquet disappointed.
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Winestreet Celebrates 2005 Burgundy (Potel, Jadot, Bouchard, Girarding, others): Even better than the Volnay Vielles Vignes. The nose is very expressive giving predominantly dark fruit and brown sugar. In the mouth this is awesome stuff. Extremely thick but has a great texture. Great flavor intensity. Great balance. Extremely tannic. Really needs some time to show what it's got. Excellent.
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(Potel Nicolas Volnay Caillerets) Medium-plus colour - almost purple. A wide and really interesting nose of black-shaded fruit over a base of coffee. The finest tannins yet - they are only faintly astringent, despite their abundance. The fruit on the palate is very clean and understated yet very long. This is a fantastic wine and worth a special search.
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6/19/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:
2005 Volnay Premier Cru Tasting and Lunch (San Francisco): Ruby. Stemmy scents with warm, ripe fruit in the background. More soil comes through over time. At first, rather stern, blockish, simple black fruit, but this loosens up, revealing real sweetness, excellent acidity, and a lovely soil finish. Now is probably not the optimal time, but significant potential.
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11/10/2013 - mzimberg Likes this wine: 94 Points
Quite dark. Mentholated aromas of candied cherry in a wet, magical forest. Full, dense, rich palate with layers of crystalline sour candies to go with the haunting, delacy of Volnay. Amazing pasty pinot sap that only comes from great burgundy. 1+ minute finish. A multi-wow wine. I wish I had more. Some say '05 was too ripe but this has perfect balance. I wish I could find more. Looks like this isn't available at all anymore.
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7/18/2012 - Shanta wrote:
A nose of dark red fruits and sappy varietal notes, then a finely textured palate, consistently weighted and quite firm. The texture of the palate lifted it but the lack of any real interest in the bouquet disappointed.
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11/29/2007 - Siggy wrote: 91 Points
Winestreet Does 2005 Burgundy (Kozlak's, North Oaks, MN): My second taste of this. Open, floral, and expressive. Gorgeously ripe fruit. Compared with the previous bottle, this showed better integrated oak and riper fruit.
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11/29/2007 - Dave Dalluge wrote: 92 Points
Winestreet Celebrates 2005 Burgundy (Potel, Jadot, Bouchard, Girarding, others): Even better than the Volnay Vielles Vignes. The nose is very expressive giving predominantly dark fruit and brown sugar. In the mouth this is awesome stuff. Extremely thick but has a great texture. Great flavor intensity. Great balance. Extremely tannic. Really needs some time to show what it's got. Excellent.
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