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Bottle of Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Clos des Chateau des Ducs 2015 [NET]-Red Wine-Flatiron SF

Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Clos des Chateau des Ducs 2015 [NET]

Red Wine from Burgundy, France
by Domaine Michel Lafarge
$289.00
NET

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What is this wine?
Domaine Michel Lafarge, one of Volnay’s most revered traditional domaines, has been farming biodynamically since the 1990s and is celebrated for producing some of the village’s most perfumed, long-lived Pinot Noirs. Clos du Château des Ducs is a tiny monopole (exclusively owned vineyard) in the heart of Volnay, just one hectare in size, and considered one of the appellation’s crown jewels. The 2015 vintage was warm and generous, producing deeply concentrated, structured reds built for long aging.

Why get this wine?
This is one of the rarest wines of Volnay: a monopole from a legendary domaine. Lafarge’s style—delicate yet profound—meets the power of 2015, creating a bottling that is both monumental and collectible. For Burgundy lovers, it’s the essence of Volnay from one of its greatest interpreters.

What does this wine taste like?
Red cherry, raspberry, and strawberry layered with rose petal, spice, and subtle earthy notes. Silky yet firm, with fine-grained tannins, vibrant acidity, and a long, mineral-driven finish.

When should you drink this wine?
Best 2025–2045. Decant young bottles. A natural match for roast duck, squab, or truffle-infused 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 95
"Interestingly the expressive and cool nose combines aspects from both the Pitures and the Caillerets with both red and dark pinot fruit, floral, spice and tea nuances. Here too the refined middle weight flavors brim with minerality and energy while displaying a caressing and sophisticated mouth feel before delivering first-rate punch on the impeccably well-balanced finish. This is also impeccably well-balanced and one very classy Volnay 1er."

Antonio Galloni

AG 96
"Medium red. Ineffable high-pitched perfume of crushed raspberry, red cherry and blood orange. Boasts compelling richness and depth of fruit, but a distinctly red quality in spite of its youthfully medicinal character. A wine of great sucrosité and early balance, this spectacular Volnay maintains its outstanding fullness and breadth through an almost endless finish. With its noble tannins, savory minerality and astonishing lightness of being, this is an essence of Pinot Noir. It would appear to possess the energy for a 30-year life span. One of the most spectacular young Volnays I've ever tasted." -Stephen Tanzer

Robert Parker

RP 95
"The 2015 Volnay 1er Cru Clos du Château des Ducs has what you might describe as an "aristocratic" bouquet, one that is distant and almost aloof at first and yet warming to you in its presence, revealing superb mineralité and tension. The palate is medium-bodied with thickset, rather rigid tannin that lend this body and density, the fruit darker and perhaps more masculine than Lafarge's Volnay Pitures and Mitans. It delivers a very focused, rather grippy finish and wonderful persistence. This has long-term prospects and should be reserved for those with patience or children with a penchant for seriously good Volnay." -Neal Martin

Jancis Robinson

JR 18.5
"Old calcaire soils and quite brown. Deep gravel on top of calcaire. Introvert nose with masses of intensity and sinew. Real concentration and sinew . What power. So tempting to drink now but one really shouldn t. Very special. Very long."

Decanter

D 96
"The Clos du Château des Ducs is a beauty, with a perfumed nose of violets, raspberry, cherry, raw cocoa and dark soil tones. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and very, very deep, with silky, rich tannins and incredible amplitude and dimension through the long, focussed and properly reserved finish."

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Pinot Noir

  • Vintage

    2015

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Biodynamic

  • Style

    Earthy , Elegant , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied