Michel Lafarge, Volnay Caillerets other_regions_australia warm and dry year with

warm and dry year with some well-timed summer rain that allowed the vines to produce bright

game and nutty oak on the nose

youthfully austere and sneaky long finish

This is impressive and very serious but hardly perfect

but that is just fine

Michel Lafarge, Volnay Caillerets other_regions_australia warm and dry year with(from a parcel measuring 7ouvres, or around . 3 ha of 40+ year old vines). A gorgeously spiced nose offers up notes of plum, kirsch, earth, lilac and violet nuances. There is excellent mid palate concentration to the intensely mineral driven and impressively rich medium bodied flavors that possess a really lovely sense of underlying tension, all wrapped in a wonderfully complex, persistent and well balanced finale. This is well worth considering. (91