Domaine de Montille Volnay Les Mitans Premier Cru 2017
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The diversity of soils throughout Mitans contributes to the complexity of the wine. Mitans tends to produce a very floral (roses, violets), delicate, elegant wine that is quite friendly right out of the gate. De Montille sees this Volnay as a sister to their Corton Clos du Roy.
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Mitans usually produces a measly 20 hl/ha, but yielded twice that in 2017 without the slightest drop in quality. This is quite marked by its two-thirds whole clusters, with notes of peat and green malt, but this definitely adds another layer of complexity to what is a fine, sappy, focussed premier cru bottling.
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COMMENTARY: The 2017 Domaine de Montille Volnay 1er Cru Les Mitans is an excellent wine. TASTING NOTES: This wine is bright and savory, and it stays long on the palate. Enjoy its energetic aromas and flavors of strawberries, cranberries, and savory spices with roast, wild turkey. (Tasted: October 28, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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James Suckling
This has a very fragrant edge, as well as swirling, spicy complexity. Sweet fruit here, in the red-cherry zone. The palate has fine and quite feminine style with a web of fine tannins, carrying strawberry fruit flavors. Long and bright. Drink or hold.
Barrel Sample: 91-92
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
On the hillsides between Pommard and Meursault, Volnay is one of two villages in the Côte de Beaune of Burgundy that is recognized for its extraordinary Pinot Noir. Pommard is the other; the rest of the villages are most known for some of the most exceptional Chardonnay in the world. While Volnay Pinot Noir tends to be light in color and more delicate than that of Pommard, they typically stand on par with each other in regards to quality and demand.
Volnay can’t claim any Grands Crus vineyards but more than half of it has achieved Premier Cru status. Volnay Premiers Crus vineyards stretch across the entire village from northeast to southwest, abutting and actually falling “into” Meursault. Where they merge is a vineyard called Les Santenots. Pinot Noir grows in this Meursault Premier Cru but since that village is most associated with stellar whites, the Pinot Noir from Les Santenots, takes the name Volnay Santenots. Immediately above it are Volnay’s other prized Premier Cru, Le Cailleret, Champans, Clos des Chênes and Le Cailleret.
Volnay Pinot Noir are earthy with red or blue fruit. Aromas such as smoke, herbs, forest, cocoa and spice are common and on the palate they are gorgeous and concentrated with finesse but won’t truly charm you without some age.