2013 Volnay Caillerets
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Good full red. Deep, ripe aromas of dark fruits and spices show a medicinal reserve. Densely packed and concentrated, with strong acidity contributing to a very primary, clenched quality in the early going despite the wine's solid ripeness. Finishes saline and firmly tannic but not dry. This cuvée is often the supplest and tastiest in the cellar at this stage but not this year. Less fruity than the 2014 but tactile and quite long on the aftertaste. Strong acidity should keep this wine young for a long time.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
More reviews and scores
The 2013 Volnay Caillerets comes across as a bit heavy today, partly because of lingering reduction. This is the first vintage in which the Caillerets incorporates fruit from a recently acquired parcel of 50 year-old vines.
(30% from very old vines, the rest from vines planted in 1998 and 2003; no new oak): Sexy, inviting aromas of raspberry, wild cherry, mocha and smoke. Densely packed and sweet, with good energy to the flavors of black fruits, peony, menthol, wild herbs and mocha. Shows a slight youthful aggressiveness but also very good lift. Finishes with firm tannins and excellent length. Duvivier noted that this wine used to be more airy, but now it's more profound.
The 2013 Volnay 1er Cru Caillerets has a more limestone-scented bouquet, the fruit a little redder than that of Fremiets, opening with wilted rose-petal scents infusing the strawberry and red currant aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with a little more flesh than the aforementioned premier cru, but maintaining appreciable balance and minerality that is neatly assimilated on the sappy finish. This should blossom once in bottle. There is class here.
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.