2014 Volnay Vieilles Vignes
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(from warmer red soil): Moderately saturated dark red. Displays darker aromas than the Clos de la Cave, with notes of black plum, licorice and iron enlivened by a light floral quality. A step up in texture too, but less delineated in the early going. There's more wine here but it's more backward, saline and closed in on itself in the early going. This very serious 2014 village wine finishes with building tannins that call for a couple years of cellaring.
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Neal Martin
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The 2014 Volnay Vieilles Vignes, which was racked two weeks before my visit, has a very pure black currant and blueberry-scented bouquet with a fine mineralite interwoven through the aromatics. The palate is medium-bodied, quite stern and masculine with good backbone, almost Pommard-like in style with fine salinity towards the stony, stoic finish. I would give this 4-6 years in bottle. Dec 2015, www.robertparker.com