Volnay, Taillepieds, 1er Cru, 2020

Intensely mineral and salty, even more so than usual. Sunny ripe damson flavours wash over a firming bed of crushed stone characteristics. A vertical core keeps the suave fruit in shape and carries it through to a prolonged mouth-watering finish. This has terroir oozing through its every pore and ripples with energy. From a parcel in the high, southern part of the village. The slope here is very steep and well exposed, the soil is very white, poor and stony, giving wines that are racy and tight-packed in their youth that reward hugely given time.