2015 Volnay Caillerets
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The 2015 Volnay 1e Cru Caillerets is a supple, giving rendition of this celebrated premier cru, opening in the glass with a pretty bouquet of cherries, flowers and plums. On the palate, the wine is velvety and open-knit, but with good depth at the core and sap and concentration that promise more to come. Caillerets can often be quite taut in its youth, but this example from d'Angerville is one of the most generous wines in the cellar, as it was from barrel.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Bright medium ruby. Less open and expressive on the nose than the Frémiet, with ripe but restrained black fruit flavors accented by cocoa powder and high-pitched spices. Very rich, supple and deep; very ripe but with terrific penetrating energy and inner-mouth tension giving the wine an unlikely delicacy. (The 2005s never had the sharpness of acidity of the 2015s, noted Guillaume d'Angerville, who in 2013 purchased an additional block of very old vines next to the estate's original holding, which was replanted in the 1990s.)
Bright medium ruby. Less open and expressive on the nose than the Frémiet, with ripe but restrained black fruit flavors accented by cocoa powder and high-pitched spices. Very rich, supple and deep; very ripe but with terrific penetrating energy and inner-mouth tension giving the wine an unlikely delicacy. ("The 2005s never had the sharpness of acidity of the 2015s," noted Guillaume d'Angerville, who in 2013 purchased an additional block of very old vines next to the estate's original holding, which was replanted in the 1990s.)
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.