1998 Domaine Leroy Volnay 1er Cru Santenots-Du-Milieu

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93 points

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  4/15/2017 - ATBridge wrote:

  Dark fruit and very surprisingly tannic. Would not have guessed Volnay. More Leroy than Volnay, but still delicious!

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  4/12/2014 - latimer Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Tasted after a very rustic and aged Lafarge Volnay Clos de Chenes 98. The Leroy is in a completely different league.
  Young bright still quite deep red. Lovely perfumed cherry nose, almost kirsch, with a core of concentrated ripe fruit no doubt from teh 70 year old vines and super low yields. Lovely balance, minerality and acidity. Not super complex, but glorious fruit and perfume and at 16 years old still I'd guess on the way up. Remarkable wine - the quality of a serious grand cru. (But then these days so is the price, alas!)

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  1/8/2011 - brooklynguy wrote:

  Burgundy Wine Club Dinner: immediately open and giving, uncharacteristically so, said one taster with lots of Leroy experience. a very big wine in that it showed lots of power but does not veer into excess. richness to the fruit that feels almost bloody, but lots of freshness to the fru too, very floral and bright, big and round. that said, not a terrifically complex wine, and although it initially offered more pleasure than the other two wines in this flight, i preferred both of the others stylistically, in the end.

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  12/4/2008 - SimonG wrote:

  Durham Offline (Bistro 21, Durham): Nicely pinot nose, quite a young, relatively unevolved colour. Burgundian fruit on the atatck, still quite a tannic touch to the finish though not worryingly so. Fuller at the front and a little lighter on the finish initially, but with air this rounds out and takes on more weight and starts to show more complexity. Lovely, but a baby. ***(*)

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  1/1/2008 - HandPickedBurgundy wrote:

  Bright deep cherry ruby; narrow paler rim showing still a touch pinkish. Vibrant, fresh, cherry nose is really very youthful and tight. Not giving much away, other than a light touch of nicely spicy high quality oak, and a lovely rich damp-earth sweetness. Mouth entry is round, sweet and richly fruited, with lovely cherry and plum fruit. Mid-palate shows a trace of sousbois and violets. Quite a tannic grip on the finish, which is long, with sweet red cherries and a floral touch. A super wine, you can drink this now - if you have to - but it will improve for another 10 years. ****

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