2005 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Chênes

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  4/29/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points

  Volnay 1er Cru 2005 Tasting (Chicago IL): Single blind in 2005 Volnay flight. The most powerful wine of the evening, this also shows signs of great elegance, but not yet showing the actual pleasure of Volnay. It is teasing us with its potential, but not quite forthcoming. My #2 WOTN based on how much it excites me, and the group's #4. Patience.

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  1/18/2024 - fcxj wrote: 88 Points

  Disappointingly rustic for the vintage.

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  9/7/2023 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 95 Points

  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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  7/25/2022 - SB5784 wrote: 94 Points

  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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  6/2/2021 - bill00 wrote: 86 Points

  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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