2017 Volnay Fremiets
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Tasting notes
Note that this premier cru is always spelled without the 's' on d'Angerville labels. Quite sauvage and dry on the palate but floral and open on the nose. Acidity is more notable than in some of its premier-cru stablemates. (JR)
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The Wine Advocate
Jancis Robinson MW
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Bright crimson. Really very intriguing with depth and subtlety. The nose is positively heady. Really fresh palate attack with sweet but precisely etched fruit. Really rather gorgeous drive here. (JR)
The 2017 Volnay Fremiet 1er Cru has an expressive bouquet with veins of blue fruit that strafe the vibrant raspberry and crushed strawberry. Here there is fine mineralité tucked just underneath. The palate is vibrant, almost effervescent on the entry with blood orange infusing the red fruit, great tension and quite pointed tannin, a Fremiet that is bursting with life. Superb.
The 2017 Volnay 1er Cru Fremiets offers up aromas of plums, cassis, wood smoke, dark chocolate and rich soil tones, followed by a medium to full-bodied, chalk and structured palate that's firmer and more muscular than the supple, giving Clos des Angles. The soils here are thinner and the wine inherently less gourmand, but it will reward the patient with lovely purity and transparency.
About the producer
Marquis d'Angerville is synonymous with the village of Volnay, having long made some of the village’s finest wines. Best known for its Premier Cru monopole vineyard, Clos des Ducs, this estate crafts fine-boned, elegant styles of Pinot Noir – wines that act as standard-bearers for the appellation.