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2018 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 1er Cru Clos du Château des Ducs
Pinot Noir
- France
- Burgundy
- Côte de Beaune
- Volnay 1er Cru
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Community Tasting Notes 13
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jmoon Likes this wine: 94 points
April 10, 2024 - 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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rc@ughey wrote: 94 points
December 28, 2023 - 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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SARED Likes this wine: 95 points
September 4, 2023 - 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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fcxj wrote: 90 points
July 4, 2023 - Didn't love it, felt frayed.
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jnewman77 Likes this wine:
May 10, 2023 - 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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Pro Reviews 8
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By Neal Martin
Dealing with the New Paradigm: Burgundy 2018 (Nov 2022), 11/1/2022 (link)(Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Clos du Château des Ducs 1er Cru Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jeb Dunnuck
Up From The Cellar No. 16, 11/8/2021 (link)(Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 1er Clos Du Chateau Des Ducs) Subscribe to see review text.
Burghound
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By Allen Meadows
Apr-20, Issue #78 (link)(Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay "Clos du Château des Ducs" 1er Cru Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Neal Martin
2018 Burgundy: Confounded Expectations (Jan 2020), 1/1/2020 (link)(Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Clos Du Château Des Ducs 1er Cru Red) Subscribe to see review text.
JancisRobinson.com
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By Julia Harding, MW
11/27/2019 (link)(Dom Michel Lafarge, Clos du Château des Ducs Premier Cru Volnay Red) Subscribe to see review text.
Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy
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By Jasper Morris
2018: The Vintage Report (Côte de Beaune), 11/1/2019 (link)(Volnay Clos du Château des Ducs 1er Cru, Domaine Michel Lafarge, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
View From the Cellar
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By John Gilman
Nov/Dec 2019, Issue #84, The 2018 Burgundy Vintage: Another Solar Vintage of Sometimes Excellent Quality(Volnay “Clos du Château des Ducs”- Domaine Michel Lafarge) Subscribe to see review text.
Decanter
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By Tim Atkin MW
Burgundy 2018 Vintage Report Volnay, 10/20/2018 (link)(Domaine Michel Lafarge, Volnay, 1er Cru Clos du Château des Ducs, Burgundy, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2018
- Type Red
- Producer Domaine Michel Lafarge
- Varietal Pinot Noir
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard Clos du Château des Ducs
- Country France
- Region Burgundy
- SubRegion Côte de Beaune
- Appellation Volnay 1er Cru
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 84 (10%)
- In Cellars 642 (78%)
- Consumed 92 (11%)
Food Pairing
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Who Likes This Wine
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- VarietyPinot Noir
- CountryFrance
- RegionBurgundy
- SubRegionCôte de Beaune
- AppellationVolnay 1er Cru
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