1998 La Pousse d'Or Volnay 1er Cru Les Caillerets

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  11/16/2019 - beatles wrote: 91 Points

  Interesting to see this, dry, almost chalky, elegant and vertical. Still a petit lively fruit.
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  3/6/2016 - bengti Likes this wine: 90 Points

  An elegant Volnay, airy and well balanced with notes of cherry, blackcurrant, coal, spice and roast nuts. Colour was pale red to light brown which confirmed that the palette detected. this seemed easing into its twilight years. Best with shellfish and game to mask that its seen better years.

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  10/31/2011 - Alex H wrote: 87 Points

  Thought this to be chambolle with it's pretty red fruits and perfumed flowers. It was as good as any chambolle but being volnay, this had a less complex tannin structure yet hardly discernable difference. Delicious wine again. I had preferred the 60 ouvres but this is definitely top notch volnay.

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  10/29/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 93 Points

  Strong masculine nose, leather, underbrush and dark cherries on nose. Herbs, spice, dark cherries and raspberries, liquorice. Fresh fruits on the mid, but thins off to the finish. Nevertheless an excellent wine. Great balance, elegance and tannins.

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  10/29/2011 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Dinner with Fabrice Amiot (Canton Tastes, Albert Street): Third of a trio of delicious pinots, I thought this was very good indeed. It perhaps benefitted from being the most developed given its vintage, but nevertheless, this was certainly a wine of quality. It had a knockout nose. Lots of mossy earth and undergrowth aromas, and then strawberries and dark cherries, and a wafting, lilting scent of musky flowers - lush and beautiful, this was everything you would imagine an archetypal Volnay bouquet to be. Developed though it may have been, the palate wad actually extremely young for a 1998, showing a bit tight at point. But even then, it was already giving such pleasure. It had lovely depth, not in a Grand Cru fashion perhaps, but it had almost Grand Cru-like purity and definition to its pure dark cherry flavours seasoned with hints of mineral earth and spice. It had really good bones too, with fine but structured tannins and really fresh, juicy acidity lending it a very nice sense of poise and balance as it moved into a pretty finish touched with dried flower petals. A beautiful wine. While drinking quite well now, this wine deserves at least another 3-4 years in the cellar, and will probably reward those with patience to hold it beyond that.

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