2002 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 1er Cru

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  5/12/2022 - Captain Haddock Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This is still like a coiled spring - so much energy. Lots of zip but also a lovely texture and an elegant personality. Needs a little air but open for business now and over the next decade.

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  4/3/2019 - soyhead wrote: flawed

  Corked !

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  1/18/2019 - DougLee wrote: 92 Points

  Brought to Le Central where popped and poured. Dark ruby color, almost opaque. After about 30 minutes, the nose brought forth great wafts of intense florals, schist, cherry pits, and iodine. I could have smelled it all day. Hearty but ultimately disciplined layers of crisp red raspberry and mulberry fruit on the palate, also transparently transmitting iron, fine earth, and a touch of austere rusticity. Bright acidity and still-firm tannin, leading to a longer finish of sauvage red berry, fruit, grip, and iron. Full of character and verve, this wine could evolve for years.

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  1/14/2017 - Remony wrote: 91 Points

  This is turning into a lovely wine. Still on the young side, but already a delicious perfume, and a floral mouth puckering intensity. Fine acidity, good tannins and length. In a good way, Julia equated it to stilton -- a similar arresting quality to the tangy flavours you get from the blue bits in the cheese. Needs another year or two.

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  12/27/2014 - Remony wrote: 89 Points

  Solid but somewhat monolithic Volnay. Good colour. Has that slightly bitter caramel & wood flavour, which persists through a good long finish. No real development in the glass, or over 3 hours. Plainly a good wine, but not giving very much tonight. Similar to the 1999 Volnays at the same age, but not quite as severe. Always a mystery to me how these unyielding rather bitter wines manage in the end to find sweetness and harmony, when (if) they eventually do.

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