2013 Volnay Clos des Chenes

Bright medium red. Wild, soil-driven aromas of raspberry, humus and underbrush. Fine-grained and vibrant in the mouth, with notes of orange peel and dried flowers giving surprising lift and early sex appeal to the red fruit flavors. Tannins are firm but not dry on the long back end. "This is a normally brutal cru that's much more likely to avoid being dry and tannic in cool years," notes Mounir Saouma. "Lots of people overextract Clos des Chênes."