2018 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 1er Cru Clos du Château des Ducs

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  4/10/2024 - jmoon Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Completely delicious now. Beautiful smooth ripe lovely dark black and red fruits, lots of fun and nuance really delicious now but of course no hurry - great future

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  12/28/2023 - rc@ughey wrote: 94 Points

  Lafarge KILLED '18. This is just a beautiful Volnay. It's fragrant and seductive, but with lots of stuffing from the ripe vintage. It is a touch rough around the edges, as Lafarge usually is, but in a way that only adds character. This is great now and has decades of improvement ahead. A real triumph and my score may be conservative.

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  9/4/2023 - SARED Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Scored on potential. Wine opened very tight and slowly opened up over a 1.5 hour decant, but was consumed before it ever got open. On a reticent nose, there was sandalwood spice with a tinge of red raspberry and red strawberry. Palate of bright red and crystalline cherry and strawberry, sour strawberry, ever so slightly dusty tannin. After 1.5-2 hours in the glass more dark red tones pop up, giving a better sense of what this wine can offer when it will re-open. Not touching any more of these for another 5 years, but this will has the stuffing to be excellent many years thereafter.

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  7/4/2023 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points

  Didn't love it, felt frayed.

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  5/10/2023 - jnewman77 Likes this wine:

  tasted at the domaine; incredible explosive nose; leans more red fruited than the 2020 clos des chenes just tasted before; mineral, floral, along with cherry, red currant and plum; large scaled palate with plenty of structure and yet it feels velvety and silky with the fruit; again a long lingering finish; this was hand destemmed with a wicker table that the grapes were rolled over and is always the first plot to be harvested; another long term player; killer stuff

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