2019 Domaine R. DuBois & Fils Volnay Les Paux Bois

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89 points

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  10/14/2023 - Stuart10er Likes this wine:

  Pale colored with barnyard, earthy nose. Taste has light tannins and black cherry notes. Drying on the finish. Enjoyable and part of my burgundy education. Long ways to go still but this was a pleasant stop on the journey.

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  4/13/2023 - Burgundy Al wrote: 86 Points

  Old school and classically Volnay. Ripe red cherry, not quite showing the richness of the vintage, but certainly young and ripe, more like many 2017s. Medium weight, faintly spiced and well balanced. Perhaps slightly drying finish. Good Village
  Level wine, now through 2029.

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  11/9/2022 - SeattleKen Likes this wine:

  Way more Burgundy since last tasting— or maybe it’s the sudden cold snap and my changing taste buds. This tastes like a warm weather Cote de Beaune (which this is) or an Oregon Pinot from some place with a fair amount of limestone. Definitely improved.

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  8/4/2022 - spinnin_and_sippin Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Floral, simple nose. This wine is more about texture. Glycerin, concentrated, medium acid. A touch of bitter dandelion asks you to take another sip.
  
  Was 40 bucks…still cheaper and better than oregon PN.

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  6/17/2022 - SeattleKen Likes this wine:

  Light color. On opening, nose is light cherry and a bit of spice. On the palate, there’s something slightly rich and spicy in the palate that says California. Definitely doesn’t scream “I’m a Volnay!” THEN, after two plus hours in the decanter, the wine reverses. Fruits retreat. Wine thins. A lot of stinky Burgundian earth come forward. Now if you handed me this glass blind, I’d probably tell you it’s an immature village level Gevrey or NSG (it’s way too thin now in body to be more than village level). In short, this wine is a confusing mystery and a chameleon. Would be a blast to toss in as a ringer in a Pinot Noir tasting. No matter what, I’ll bet you that there is no way anyone would guess this is a basic village level young Volnay. The earthiness says the fruit is closer to Pommard. For the non wine geek crowd, this wine is fine now; either way (just opened or decanted, New World or Old World), it went great with roasted king salmon, which along with the abundance of great Pinot Noir is a superb justification for living in the PacNW (weather notwithstanding).😉

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