2013 Volnay Clos des Angles
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The 2013 Volnay Clos des Angles is quite powerful and intense for the year. Spice, new leather, menthol and tobacco wrap around a core of dark fruit. Hints of reduction are present today that mask some of the fruit. Nevertheless, the 2013 offers good potential and may turn out to be even better than this note suggests.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Bright blueish crimson. Dense and ungiving on the nose but it does taste as though there’s a lot going on underneath. Quite severe. But pure. (JR)
(from a massale selection planted in the 1950s; production of 13 hectoliters per hectare in 2013): Good deep red. Extremely reduced nose offers a very ripe aroma of raspberry liqueur. Fat and sweet, showing an almost syrah-like gamey quality to its high-toned spicy red fruit flavors. Finishes with building tannins and very good length. Today I prefer the 1er Cru for its verve, but this is very concentrated. This massale selection always yields a suppler, higher-pH style, noted régisseur François Duvivier.
The 2013 Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Angles was showing just a touch of reduction when I tasted it. Underneath is some undergrowth, mulch-like scents infusing the black fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with gently grippy tannins. There is moderate weight in the mouth with a more assertive blackberry and raspberry finish. Fine.
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.