Drouhin/Joseph Volnay 2019

90.8 points CellarTracker.com community score.

90+ points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "Maison Drouhin has always made lovely examples of Volnay and I still have most of a case of their 1999 Clos des Chênes in my cellar as testament to this fact. Their 2019 Volnay AC is a beautiful wine, offering up a superb bouquet of black cherries, sweet dark berries, gamebird, dark soil tones, a touch of stems, woodsmoke and a gentle foundation of new oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and quite nicely generous on the attack, with a good core, lovely soil undertow, a fair bit of tannin and a long, complex and very well balanced finish. There is a touch of the baked fruit character of the vintage in evidence here, but much like the ’89 red Burgs or the ’82 Bordeaux, this is not a demerit, just a characteristic of the vintage. Good juice. 2029-2065. (Jan/Feb 2022)"