2017 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Chênes

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 94 points

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  12/20/2023 - mattyboy_ Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Amazing how well this drinks now. Perfumed nose. Layered cherry, wild strawberry, sweet baking spices, burnt sugar. Precise, layered and focus mid palate with fine tannin. Just fabulous to drink now, but with room for more improvement.

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  12/17/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  Domaine visit notes, so only brief impressions. Ethereal, floral, complex nose of farmyard and red fruit. A real success. 94+

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  4/17/2022 - T.E.D. wrote: 92 Points

  A bit more muted than I was hoping. The star here is the purity and lithe nature. Strawberry, spices and rose bush profile, mouthfeel showed great minerality. Very approachable but will certainly benefit from a few more years

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  2/2/2022 - NickA Likes this wine: 95 Points

  2017 reds with Jasper Morris MW (67 Pall Mall TV): Also entirely destemmed.
  
  A deeper and more wild nose than the Pommard. Slightly high-toned, plenty of almost-candied red fruit. Real weight of fruit on the palate, which completely fills the mouth, with a hint of rose and exotic bazaar, followed by peppery spice on the finish moving into blackberry crumble - excellent length. All that fruit is nevertheless perfectly balanced by pitch-perfect acidity and finely woven tannins. Probably even more impressive than when I tasted it last year.

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  10/19/2021 - NickA Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Jasper on Terroir: Volnay 1er Cru (67 Pall Mall TV): Lots of limestone. Along with Taillepieds (which is directly to the north) it is benefiting from the warming climate.
  
  Big, bright nose. Delicious and nutty. Really pure sweet strawberry on the nose, almost a sense of eau de vie, though also wild and brambly, then some spice on the palate. Well-integrated, balanced and quite intense. Stony finish. JM would age this at least another ten years, but it's already tremendous.

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