10% new wood. A more definite purple colour. Lively raspberry, such stylish wines, not enormously more grip than the regular, perhaps an extra tannin at the very end, but the velvet covering lasts even longer at the back of the palate. Superb finesse Drink from 2030-2037. Tasted Dec 2024.

The 2023 Volnay Vendanges Sélectionnées comes from four selected parcels located just below the Premier Crus and matured in 10% new oak. This is a level up from the regular cuvée with more fruit intensity and presence, presenting raspberry and wild strawberry laced with undergrowth. The palate is medium-bodied with impressive concentration, gentle grip and a slightly chalky texture toward its finale of frisson and energy. Very fine.(NM)

The old vine cuvée of Volnay “Vendanges Selectionées” is also outstanding in 2023. These vines now are all over sixty years of age and have really excelled in this fine vintage, offering up scents of plums, red and black cherries, raw cocoa, pigeon, a lovely base of dark soil tones, just a whisper of new oak and plenty of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and beautifully sappy in the mid-palate, with fine-grained tannins, excellent mineral drive and grip and a long, complex and tangy finish. Premier cru quality! (Drink between 2035-2080)