Marquis d'Angerville

Volnay, Champans, 1er Cru, 2015

Name: Volnay, Champans, 1er Cru
Brand: Marquis d'Angerville
Price: 681.53 GBP

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Vinous

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2015
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£681.53

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

As Champans should be, pure unadulterated pleasure. Ample, curvy, floral and seductive. Ripe, open, aromatic flavours, seductive and smooth with a really fresh twist giving this focus. Juicy, gorgeous strawberry, victoria plum, loganberry, cherry and raspberry fruit. A stunning Champans, a textbook Volnay. A big vineyard in the middle of prime 1er 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.

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Critic Reviews

95/100

Stephen Tanzer,

Vinous

(13.5% alcohol): Saturated ruby. Youthfully imploded aromas and flavors of blackberry, cassis and licorice show no roasted character (the color of the wine is the only thing that gives away the vintage, noted Guillaume d'Angerville). More pliant than the 2016 but with a magical sugar/acid equilibrium and a complicating element of savory minerality. This insidiously palate-saturating wine finishes with outstanding slatey persistence and grip. I would imagine that this will be long-lived but will it ever really shut down in the bottle? It's hard to imagine that this fruit was harvested on September 4.

date of review 01/2018

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