2017 Volnay Clos des Angles 1. Cru Marquis d'Angerville

Wafting from the glass with beautiful aromas of rose petal, violets, cherries and raspberries, the 2017 Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Angles is medium-bodied, ample and charming, with an exuberantly expressive core of pure, succulent fruit, framed by fine, chalky tannins.

Ripe dense red purple, a little bit of tomato in the aromatics. Les Angles gets all the soil which has come down from Fremiets, makes for a bit more weight and perhaps less precision. But still Volnay enough. Tasted: November 2018.

The 2017 Volnay Clos des Angles 1er Cru shows quite a bit of reduction on the nose tasting it from barrel. The palate is more compact than the Volnay Premier Cru, more muscular, although I find it needs a little more grace towards the finish. Give this two or three years once in bottle.