Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Vendanges Selectionnees 2022

Name: Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Vendanges Selectionnees 2022
Brand: Veritas [VER]
SKU: SF-VER--092625-56
Price: 104.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$104⁹⁹

Frédéric and Clothilde Lafarge craft this Pinot Noir from multiple parcels in Volnay's heart, with southeast exposure and clay-limestone soils yielding silky, precise wine. Whole-cluster fermented with indigenous yeast, aged 18 months in mostly neutral oak—the elegance Volnay is famous for: meticulous, biodynamically farmed fruit speaking without excess. The future of Burgundy's greatest terroir in devoted custodians' hands.

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Burghound

90-92 points

"Note: from a blend of vines that average 55+ years of age situated in Grand Champs, Echards, La Gigotte and Pluchots. A slightly more deeply pitched nose grudgingly offers up its blend of poached plum, black currant, spice and just enough wood to notice. The old vines are in evidence as the medium-bodied flavors are noticeably denser and more powerful with plenty of sappy dry extract buffering the firmer tannic spine shaping the sneaky long, balanced and youthfully austere finale. This is almost always excellent and so it is again in 2022.*Burghound Outstanding Top Value!*"

Antonio Galloni

91-93 points

"From Lafarge's 85-year-old vines directly below Santenots-du-Milieu on shallower soils, the 2022 Meursault Vendange Sélectionée has a more complex bouquet than the regular cuvée, with subtle scents of orange pith, quince and a touch of chamomile. This feels a little livelier than the Meursault Village, edgy, its rockier terroir lending greater live-wire tension towards the finish. Excellent." —Neal Martin

Robert Parker

89-91 points

"More seamless and enveloping, the 2022 Volnay Vendanges Sélectionées reveals notes of cherries, sweet berries, raw cocoa and spices. Medium to full-bodied, layered and fleshy, with powdery structuring tannins, it will offer a broad drinking window." —William Kelley

Decanter

94 points

"With its deeper colour and riper aromas of mulberry and pomegranate, the Vendanges Selectionées bottling is a marked step up from the regular village Volnay. The grapes come from four lieux-dits clustered in the centre of the village, touching the premiers crus; they are destemmed and gently fermented on native yeasts before ageing in cask with a tiny proportion of new wood (8%). The result has more tannin and chewiness. There is still a thread of nervous acidity that helps carry the wine to a winningly long finish. The Vendanges Selectionées is no ordinary village-level wine and merits a couple of years in bottle before opening.(CC) "

More about Domaine Michel Lafarge

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.