Volnay, Les Fremiets, 1er Cru, 2016
A mightily impressive Frémiets, intense mineral and crunchy, cherry fruit. Bursting with vivid ripe fruit flavours with touches of stone and undergrowth too. Plenty of muscle but so agile with it. Boisterous and bubbling with personality, a very complex Frémiets. A great success. Further up the hill than Clos des Angles, and as a result a vineyard with less deep soil – the resulting wine is more muscular, mineral and tannic.
critic reviews
The 2016 Volnay 1er Cru Fremiets is also showing very well, wafting from the glass with a lovely bouquet of dark berries, raw cocoa, orange rind, forest floor and dried flowers. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated, having come together beautifully since I tasted it from barrel, framed by juicy acids and fine, stony tannins. It's a superb wine that confirms the serious stature of this vintage chez d'Angerville.
Bright medium ruby. Brooding aromas of black cherry, blueberry and violet. Dense, sappy Volnay with compelling sweetness to its dark berry fruit. Finishes with dusty, broad tannins and good saline lift. The estate lost 25% of this parcel to frost, but Guillaume d'Angerville told me that the ultimate crop was actually larger than he thought it would be during the summer.