2002 Volnay Clos des Ducs 1er Cru
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Good medium red. Sexy fresh red berries, balsamic mint and a cool menthol quality on the nose. Incredibly backward for 2002 but already shows outstanding sweetness of red berry fruit complicated by tobacco and black olive tapenade. Powerful, palate-staining Clos des Duc with a serious spine of tannins and acidity. Jacques d'Angerville vinified the 2002s and son Guillaume bottled them after his father's death in 2003.
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Neal Martin
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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The 2002 Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Ducs has meliorated since I last tasted it back in 2010. Here, it has a really quite entrancing bouquet, that transparency intact but the fruit enhanced with time: strawberry and red currant, almost a "flinty" mineralité underneath. The palate is very poised and has gained a little complexity, linear and regal. It has a crystalline finish, graceful and effervescent with touch of orange zest lingering on the aftertaste. Excellent.
Light ruby with a pale rim. Lots of savoury development on the nose. Real lift. An edge of candy and then solid bite of tannins and bite on the end, but overall the impression is of sweetness here. Very charming indeed. Seems fairly open. Very Volnay. But not just sweet... (JR)
Delicate, pure nose – pretty low key and youthful compared with 2004. Very very delicate and a bit of a Virginia Woolf. Hugely sensitive and all that. Lovely and beautiful but strictly for the initiated. A very particular style. (JR)
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.