de Montille, Volnay Mitans

de Montille, Volnay Mitans(25+ year old vines; 100% stems). A positively gorgeous and airy nose offers outstanding complexity and breadth with a dazzling combination of rose petal, spice, stone and extract of red pinot fruit. The refined and impressively precise medium bodied flavors possess striking punch and authority before culminating in a long and impeccably well balanced finish. This understated effort makes quite a statement yet it is a wine of gossamer fineness. (91

There are lifted

Almost sticky in feel

tannic finish that has immense precision

Readers who prefer more aromatic complexity might prefer to cellar the 2012 for another few years

you might be laying this down for your kids

but it's not necessarily better

Finishes with suave tannins

with an exotic

floral and pungently spicy nose features notes of plum and dark berry fruit scents that are trimmed in just enough wood to notice

This is quite aromatically similar to the Corton with perhaps just a bit less sauvage character

The soils are poor in organic substances

crushed herbs and notes of red and black cherries