2015 Vosne Romanee Les Malconsorts
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Tasting notes
(100% vendange entier; 60% new oak): Bright dark red. Knockout discreet nose combines raspberry, Oriental spices, rose petal and flinty minerality. Extremely intense in the mouth, with its youthfully imploded flavors of raspberry and saline minerality conveying outstanding definition and energy. The longest of these 2015s so far, finishing with noble building tannins and lovely red berry, spice and crushed-stone perfume. This wine struck me as higher-pitched and redder in its fruit character than the 2014 version at the same stage. Sieve noted that the estate's highest 18 rows of vines on hard limestone give this wine an edginess that's not found in the Christiane cuvée.
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Neal Martin, Wine Advocate
The Wine Advocate
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The 2015 Vosne-Romanee 1er Cru les Malconsorts, matured in 65% new oak, has a very pure bouquet with black cherry, red plum, pomegranate and wet limestone aromas that gain intensity in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with elegant tannin on the entry, finely judged acidity and a structured, quite grippy finish that suggests it will require several years in bottle. Great potential here.
The 2015 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru les Malconsorts Cuvée Christiane is 100% whole bunch matured in 65% new oak. It has a very intense bouquet, perhaps a little more opaque than the regular Malconsorts, gradually opening with grey slate aromas tincturing the dark berry fruit. The palate is very well balanced with filigree tannin, supremely well-judged acidity, harmonious and focused with a long and tensile finish. Just a fabulous Malconsorts.
100% whole bunch, 60% new oak. Finished malolactic fermentation only in September. One of the more sumptuously fruity wines from this address. Though pretty drying on the end. (JR)
About the producer
Volnay’s Domaine de Montille is one of the most historic in the Côte d’Or. Founded in 1730, the property remains family-owned and run, with Etienne de Montille – the ninth generation – at the helm today.