2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Clos des Chenes, Volnay Premier Cru, France Hamilton polished tannins take hold and

polished tannins take hold and are framed with incredible acidity

with occasional gentle pump-overs

The must ferments for ten days with the skins and after racking it remains in fiberglass

The grapes undergo hand harvesting and are transported in refrigerated trucks to the winery

and we allow the wine to go through malo

2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Clos des Chenes, Volnay Premier Cru, France Hamilton polished tannins take hold andPinot Noir from old vine, uppermid slope parcels in Clos des Chnes on very shallow, stony limestone with thin brown clay; the domaine farms biodynamically and harvests by hand. Fruit is rigorously sorted, with a measured share of whole clusters when stems are perfectly ripe, then fermented with indigenous yeasts in open vats with gentle extraction. levage runs 1418 months in older 228 L pices with no new oak and minimal racking; SO is added only after