Domaine de Montille Volnay 1er Cru En Champans 2022
£144.25
The wine
Red cherries, raspberry and wild strawberry on the nose, tinged with violet. Medium-bodied on the palate with sappy red fruit, velvety tannins, good acidity and a persistent finish.
En Champans is one of the great premiers crus of Volnay, the commune that gives the most perfumed and delicate reds on the Côte de Beaune. Half the fruit went in as whole bunches here, which is what lifts the aromatics into that violet register, and the wine spent 14 to 18 months in barrel with a quarter new oak. Hand picked, sorted twice in vineyard and cellar, biodynamically farmed.
The producer
Domaine de Montille
View all Domaine de Montille winesIn the village of Volnay, on the Côte de Beaune, Domaine de Montille is one of Burgundy most revered names. Built over generations by the de Montille family, and now led by Étienne de Montille, the estate is famed for reds and whites of rare precision. Its holdings read like a roll-call of Burgundy finest sites.
The domaine farms biodynamically, with a purist devotion to terroir and restraint. Whole-bunch fermentation and measured oak give reds of structure and perfume, while the whites are taut and mineral. The style is classical, ageworthy, and utterly distinctive.
The range spans the Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits, from village wines to a peerless collection of premier and grand crus. Each bottling traces the character of its vineyard with quiet authority.
To pour a de Montille wine is to taste Burgundy at its most refined and honest. Elegant, structured, and profoundly ageworthy, these are wines for the serious cellar.
