2005 Domaine Joseph Voillot Volnay Les Champans 1er Cru

Stringy and uncharming. Very angular indeed - quite different from the Fr‚miets but may well soften and dazzle eventually.

Author: Jancis Robinson

The 2005 Volnay Champans (from vines averaging 50 years of age in a cru of which the domaine owns a good 8%) offers sour cherry, red currant, rose hip, and cinnamon aromas, clear, juicy fruit with underlying wet stone on the palate, and alluring fresh ripe fruit and sweet spice in its finish. Slightly less sleek, refined or cutting than the Brouillards, and exhibiting as yet little of the fungal, forest floor or game elements one might expect to encounter in this site, this nevertheless displays admirable purity and at least decade-long aging potential.

Author: David Schildknecht