2016 Volnay Champans
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Score 90-92/100 · Neal Martin
The 2016 Volnay 1er Cru les Champans is the largest of Jean-Pierre Charlot's cuvees this year at fifteen barrels. It offers attractive raspberry and wild strawberry scents on the enticing nose, the oak neatly integrated and the terroir showing through. Some lovely undergrowth scents emerge with time. The palate is well balanced, quite broad-shouldered in style with firm tannin, not quite as nuanced as the Caillerets or Fremiets but at least there is substance and girth on the finish. This is what you might call a solid but delicious Champans. Dec 2017, www.robertparker.com
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90-92/100
Neal Martin
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Domaine Joseph Voillot