2023 Volnay 1. Cru Le Ronceret Domaine Pierre Vincent

The vines date back to 1980, in Les Aussy. 50% whole bunch vinification. Mid crimson purple. Taking time to tease out the nose. There is plenty of fruit weight here, more red than black, lifted towards the back of the palate with a little white pepper and good acidity. The 1er Cru quality really shows the further back you go on the palate, with an engaging complex yet very refined finish.

(from a .21 ha parcel; 50% whole cluster). A perfumed, elegant and decidedly spicy nose is once again exceptionally floral suffused with good layering. There is an excellent sense of underlying tension suffusing the beautifully delineated medium weight flavors that deliver fine length and notably better depth on the dusty, compact and balanced finale. This is also lovely and a wine that will need most of a decade to reach its apogee.

The most youthfully structured red in the cellar is the 2023 Volnay 1er Cru Le Ronceret, a medium to full-bodied, layered and compact wine redolent of cassis, cherries and burning embers. If the rest of the range can be approached young, this appears to merit a bit of bottle age.