Volnay, Les Fremiets, 1er Cru, 2017

This has some power and force to it. Full, structured darker fruit than the Clos des Angles. Intense muscled but toned. There is a crunchy quality to the bramble and morello cherry fruit with refreshing savoury notes. An impressive, if sterner and more serious Volnay with an earthy quality that compliments the ripe fruit. A clay dominated vineyard on the north side of the village, further up the hill from Clos des Angles, and so the soil is shallower here; the resulting wine is more structured and mineral.