Lucien Le Moine, Volnay Santenots Vintage:2017 reflecting a quite sunless summer

reflecting a quite sunless summer season

That provides a very long aftertaste and almost citric flavors with a mineral

Alain Raynaud and Michel Rolland

opens up a vista of gastronomic potential and belies the 10g/l of sugar added as dosage - nearly double the amount of the most recent vintages

33 ha parcel in Les Languettes)

Lucien Le Moine, Volnay Santenots Vintage:2017 reflecting a quite sunless summerOnce again firm reduction dominates the underlying fruit. There is excellent intensity to the tautly muscular, detailed and powerful medium weight flavors that exude a fine minerality onto the lengthy but rather dry finish where the dryness is exacerbated by the abundant gas. Between the reduction and the gas this firmly structured effort is very hard to read and while it may come together that is not a certainty. (89 92?) 2024+