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Bottle of Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 2022-Red Wine-Flatiron SF

Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 2022

Red Wine from Burgundy, France
by Domaine Michel Lafarge
$89.99
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What is this wine?

Domaine Michel Lafarge, based in Volnay, is one of Burgundy’s most revered traditional estates, producing wines of purity, elegance, and longevity for over a century. Today, Frédéric and Chantal Lafarge continue the family’s biodynamic farming and minimalist cellar philosophy—native yeast fermentations, whole clusters, and aging in neutral oak barrels—yielding some of the most graceful and terroir-expressive wines in the Côte de Beaune.
The Volnay 2022 is a blend of several village-level parcels surrounding the domaine, with vines averaging 50 years of age planted on classic clay-limestone soils. It is a quintessential example of Lafarge’s house style: luminous, perfumed, and impeccably balanced.

Why get this wine?

This is benchmark Volnay, delivering Premier Cru refinement at a village level. The 2022 vintage’s supple fruit and silky tannins make it particularly approachable young, yet it retains the structure and mineral lift to evolve beautifully for over a decade. A superb introduction to the Lafarge style and one of Burgundy’s most consistent values from a legendary domaine.

What does this wine taste like?

Elegant and expressive, with red cherry, raspberry, rose petal, and gentle spice. The palate is fine and silky, showing delicate tannins, lively acidity, and a long, mineral-driven finish.

When should you drink this wine?

Enjoy from 2026–2038. Decant for an hour in youth to open the aromatics. Excellent with roast chicken, duck, or mushroom dishes.

Left Volnay Wines

Lafarge is one of the great names in Volnay, some would say the greatest. His wines are sought out the world over, and we are always excited when our allocation arrives.

Lafarge’s home territory is Volnay, though he also has holdings in nearby Beaune and Meursault. This is an old estate that started bottling their wines in the early 1900s. Only Armand Rousseau, the DRC, and maybe two or three other growers have that kind of history.

The wines of Lafarge are magical. Despite being made in a decidedly old-school style—really no different than a generation or even two ago—they display incredible purity and not a hint of rusticity. It is the same kind of magic that Jacky Truchot was able to conjure. We only wish we could get more.

Professional Reviews

Burghound

BH 89-91
"Note: from a mix of vines that average about 40 years of age in Brouillard, Buttes, Famines, Pasquiers and Cros Martin. Spicier aromas of poached plum, dark currant, violet and a hint of crushed fennel are rimmed in more subtle wood influence. Once again there is a really lovely texture to the more mineral-inflected medium-bodied flavors that possess a caressing mouthfeel, all wrapped in a firm, punchy, lightly austere and equally well-balanced finale. Lovely and understated.*Burghound Outstanding!*"

Antonio Galloni

AG 88-90
"A blend of six parcels spread around the appellation, the 2022 Volnay Village has a well-defined and quite Pommard-like nose. The palate is medium-bodied, quite robust for a Volnay, and grippy with a slightly muscular but focused finish. A gutsy Volnay in the making, and as such, it will require 3-4 years in bottle. It may land at the top of my banded score." -Neal Martin

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Pinot Noir

  • Vintage

    2022

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Biodynamic

  • Style

    Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied