Community Tasting Notes 17

• fcxj wrote: 88 points

  January 18, 2024 - Disappointingly rustic for the vintage.

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• glou.sf Likes this wine: 95 points

  September 7, 2023 - Lovely, fragrant nose with floral notes, cherries, underwood, just a hint of mushrooms, and strawberries. Nice acidity with still very prominent tannins on the palate, red cherry notes, strawberries, and forest flavors. Long and lingering finish. A great wine that's delicious now but still primary and in need of more time to fully show its potential. 94-95+

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• SB5784 wrote: 94 points

  July 25, 2022 - A dense red hue. Still quite youthful and concentrated. On the nose, immense power of red and black fruits. Fairly dark and extracted but maintaining an elegance and complexity that I often associate with Lafarge. With time it really opened and was quite rich and fragrant. Still quite primary. On the palate, fairly big bodied flavors with dense and concentrated dark berry fruits and lots of dry extract. Fine-grained tannins spread out across the palate, and while this is drinking well it’s still very very young. A powerful and structured Volnay with a lot of power and great length on the finish. I’ll hold my last bottle.

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• bill00 wrote: 86 points

  June 2, 2021 - Monolithic ripe dark cherry fruit. Hard to get a read on this as it feels too young and primary and not giving up a lot. Not overly optimistic though as the fruit comes off as generic ripe Pinot. 86?

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• philipop wrote: 89 points

  August 22, 2020 - Très bien au nez, mais décevant en bouche.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Michel Lafarge
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Clos des Chênes
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Beaune
• Appellation Volnay 1er Cru

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• Pending Delivery 26 (2%)
• In Cellars 843 (75%)
• Consumed 255 (23%)

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