Volnay 1er cru 2017 En Champans - Domaine de Montille

Volnay 1er cru 2017 En Champans - Domaine de Montille

Vintage 2017 - Tasting notes :

" Volnay Les Champans 1er Cru 2017 is vinified with 50% whole bunches of grapes and 30% new oak. It has a very nice and strict bouquet of red cherries, raspberry and wild strawberry with hints of violet. The palate is medium-bodied with lively red fruit, good acidity, grip and a well defined backbone. The finish is very long. It has the expression one expects from this terroir. Excellent."

The appellation: 

" En Champans " is one of the greatest climates of Volnay. This sloping terroir is quite chalky at the top of the plot (along the D973), with light brown soil. At the bottom, the soil is more clayey, with brown and red tones. It is a major cru of Volnay. The vines of Domaine de Montille are planted on the whole hillside and benefit from optimal sunshine.

"Champans" would come from the association of two words "champ" and "pans" translating the slope.

The Volnay Premier Cru "En Champans" is a fresh wine, vibrant with fresh red fruits (cherries) and a rather dense tannic structure but without rigidity. The palate is full, structured and very elegant. This wine generally opens up after 7 to 12 years.

The wines, the style :

Domaine de Montille is known for producing wines of great aromatic purity, always favouring balance and elegance rather than power or extraction. The wines are a classic expression of Burgundy, produced in the most natural way possible and with an impressive ageing capacity, as we believe that only time reveals the Great Wines. The estate's current style remains faithful to the naturalness and classicism recognised in Hubert's wines, some vintages of which required a great deal of patience, but Etienne strives to bring more openness to the bouquet in the reds, and more silkiness and smoothness to the textures without compromising the wines' ageing capacity. The estate is known with a few others in Burgundy (Arlot, DRC, Dujac, Leroy, etc...) to vinify on a regular basis, leaving a large proportion of the whole harvest which is determined each year for each vintage.

Cultivation of the vine :

The Domaine has been practicing organic farming since 1995. Our wines are now Ecocert certified. Since 2005, biodynamic farming has been added to these practices, which respect the soil and living organisms.