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• Tree512 Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 13, 2024 - Exactly correct. A point. Light red color but no bricking. Umami sub bois nose. Loads of red fruit, lighter than plum but darker than cherry. Light bodied. Mature and lively. Intense mid palate and long finish. Will drink well for a while. Morish.

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• SimonG wrote: 93 points

  May 5, 2022 - 2002 Burgundy @ Noizé: A little more stuffing here. A density of fruit. Redder fruited and with a mineral line, spine without austerity. More poise and breeding here. Polished. ****

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• brooklynguy Likes this wine:

  July 9, 2021 - Opened and decanted off the sediment at 5:00, back into the bottle. Served at maybe 7:45, as part of a trio of Volnay, blind - I knew it was in there, but not which one it was. Excellent showing. Second wine served, and served after a truly ethereal and GORGEOUS bottle that was revealed later to be 2000 Lafarge Clos des Chenes. And I mean that wine was stunning, the nose along silenced the table. This wine, which I didn't know was this wine while drinking it, was a richer and riper wine. None of the ethereal fruit and dried flower, nothing like the same same wispy grace. But very lovely in its way. Darker fruit and a distinct black tea aromatic profile, much more savory in character. Continued to improve until it was gone - improving in balance and detail and articulation of aroma. The palate was fuller in texture than the 2000 Lafarge, and was entirely balanced and showed good complexity of fruit, and a savory mineral tone too, This wine showed more density of material than the Lafarge, but it was wonderful to notice how although these wines were so different, they were clearly siblings in their textural silkiness and grace. A very good night for Volnay...

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• vulgar little monkey wrote: 93 points

  February 12, 2021 - Exactly in line with previous bottles. Sweet remnants of fruit fading into some sous bois bottle sweetness. Flowers, earth, a touch of spice a bit of a hint of tart red fruits and the slightest of grip. This is what we mean when we talk about Burgundy.

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• brooklynguy Likes this wine:

  August 20, 2020 - This is a very good wine, but it’s also a very quiet wine. One wine writer I very much respect wrote a while ago that the de Montille wines can seem to “lack stuffings.” I understand that criticism based on this and a few other bottles in recent years. But there is A subtle impact and power to the wine, and there is delicate and pretty fruit, good balance and structure, and a strong iron-like minerality too. Good wine. Not my favorite of the Volnay producers and not something that would show well among many bottles at a dinner or a tasting. But lovely as the one bottle you open and share at dinner.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2002
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine de Montille
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Taillepieds
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Beaune
• Appellation Volnay 1er Cru

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• In Cellars 228 (47%)
• Consumed 228 (47%)

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