A bottle that I've been waiting on for nearly 20 years, and the bright ruby color was a good indication of what was to follow. Opened at a restaurant 1.5 hours prior to enjoying with the meal. Lots of red fruits remained balancing the notes of lingering youth with tertiary markers of earth, iron, and at times, a hint of burnt brown sugar. The wine was lifted by good acidity and very polished, though still evident tannins. The only nit was perhaps a lack of some density that I had been expecting from d'Angerville's flagship wine, still a very complete premier cru burgundy and a worthy complement to the meal, especially the duck.
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Decanted this and it needed it. Started off closed and tight. But after an hour this warmed up a bit and became just gorgeous. Really fine and precise red fruit, polished, structured and nuanced. Great year, great producer and great site. A Volnay for the long haul.
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2024 New Year's Day Double Blind Tasting: Single-blind as I knew the wine because it was my back-up bottle. I must admit... I was expecting more from this wine. Slightly reductive but restrained nose. Sweet cherry red fruit. A little flat and boring. It did get better the more I swirled it in the glass.
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Surprisingly dark translucent ruby. Nose of sharp crushed berry, effusive soaring violets, hints of iron filings and earth. Layers of remarkably fresh, vivid raspberry and black cherry fruit cut with molecular iron and iodine on the satiny palate. Brilliant acidity (still!) and filed off tannin. Long, echoing finish of red berry, pliant earth, and anchoring stone. This wine shows so much youth and exuberance today. Truly outstanding.
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(Marquis d'Angerville Volnay Clos des Ducs) Medium, medium-plus cherry-red colour right up to the rim. The nose starts with a muddle of oaky and mixed-fruit notes really needing around twenty minutes before the mist starts to lift, given thirty and focus reigns. It's deep, creamy and totally red with white pepper over a fading marzipan. Versus the 99 at the same stage this is a completely different expression, the 99 had laser-like but densely expressed fruit whereas this is broader but without the same depth and ultimate concentration. That said there is a beautiful balance to this creamy wine with subtlety being the main hallmark. Fades very slowly. Excellent. Perhaps it's only 90% as good as the 1999 but that's 90% of a very big number, I'm glad there are a few in the cellar!
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2/3/2024 - Terroir59 wrote: 93 Points
A bottle that I've been waiting on for nearly 20 years, and the bright ruby color was a good indication of what was to follow. Opened at a restaurant 1.5 hours prior to enjoying with the meal. Lots of red fruits remained balancing the notes of lingering youth with tertiary markers of earth, iron, and at times, a hint of burnt brown sugar. The wine was lifted by good acidity and very polished, though still evident tannins. The only nit was perhaps a lack of some density that I had been expecting from d'Angerville's flagship wine, still a very complete premier cru burgundy and a worthy complement to the meal, especially the duck.
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1/28/2024 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 94 Points
Decanted this and it needed it. Started off closed and tight. But after an hour this warmed up a bit and became just gorgeous. Really fine and precise red fruit, polished, structured and nuanced. Great year, great producer and great site. A Volnay for the long haul.
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1/6/2024 - slanum wrote:
(@ 165) In line with the other 2023 notes: marvelous.
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1/1/2024 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:
2024 New Year's Day Double Blind Tasting: Single-blind as I knew the wine because it was my back-up bottle. I must admit... I was expecting more from this wine. Slightly reductive but restrained nose. Sweet cherry red fruit. A little flat and boring. It did get better the more I swirled it in the glass.
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11/4/2023 - DougLee wrote: 94 Points
Surprisingly dark translucent ruby. Nose of sharp crushed berry, effusive soaring violets, hints of iron filings and earth. Layers of remarkably fresh, vivid raspberry and black cherry fruit cut with molecular iron and iodine on the satiny palate. Brilliant acidity (still!) and filed off tannin. Long, echoing finish of red berry, pliant earth, and anchoring stone. This wine shows so much youth and exuberance today. Truly outstanding.
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