1996 Volnay Champans
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The medium ruby-colored Volnay Champans has a creamy cherry-scented nose and an outstanding, sweet, medium-bodied, and supple character packed with ripe black cherries and minerals. This lovely and well-focused wine should be at its peak from its release to 2003. The score, on a range and in parentheses, indicates that the wine was tasted from barrel. Jacques, Marquis d'Angerville produced stupendous wines in 1996. When we met in mid-November, just a few weeks after the unexpected death of Gerard Potel of Domaine de la Pousse d'Or fame, d'Angerville seemed to be emotionally torn by his excitement over the "excellent millesime" and the sorrow he felt over the loss of his friend and colleague. Importer: Seagram Chateau & Estate Wines Company, New York, NY; tel (212) 572-7725.
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Pierre Rovani
Pierre Rovani
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The medium ruby-colored Volnay Champans has a creamy cherry-scented nose and an outstanding, sweet, medium-bodied, and supple character packed with ripe black cherries and minerals. This lovely and well-focused wine should be at its peak from its release to 2003. The score, on a range and in parentheses, indicates that the wine was tasted from barrel. Apr 1998, www.robertparker.com
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.