Volnay, Champans, 1er Cru, 2017

A wine that offers pure, unadulterated pleasure. There is no better wine to introduce you to the joys and charm of Volnay. Outgoing but stylish. Offering demure, lush, svelte red berry and victoria plum fruit. The lacy, silken texture is fine and invisible enough to allow the gloriously full fruit to the fore. Caressing, nourishing and satisfying. A big vineyard in the middle of prime Premier Cru Volnay territory on the south side of the village below Taillepieds, well exposed to the south-east. The soil is redder here than higher up the slope. At the top of the vineyard the soil is very rocky but becomes deeper and more clay influenced towards the bottom of the slope, giving some of the most complete Volnays that, despite ageing very well, can be extremely rewarding in youth.