2017 Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots, Domaine Yvon Clerget
£59.75
(£53.00 per bottle)
Save 11% on a case of 6 bottles
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Description
The wine comes principally from Les Santenots du Milieu, with some grapes also from the vineyard’s lower section. It is ageing in 20% new barrels, showing medium-deep, ruby-purple colour, with powerful aromas which are concentrated and fresh. Palate is gorgeously rich, with dense fruitiness, fine tannins and terrific length – a superb wine (for drinking 2020- 2028+).
Brand
Brand
Domaine Yvon Clerget
2015 was the first vintage of the highly talented young winemaker Thibaud Clerget, who completed his studies at Beaune’s Lycée Viticole in 2012. He then did vintages with Pinot Noir specialists in New Zealand and Oregon, and on the Côte de Nuits. His family has owned vineyards and made wine in and around Pommard and Volnay since AD 1268, Thibaud being the 28th generation.
If you have rarely encountered bottles from the Domaine, which carries his father’s name, this is because since 2010 Yvon Clerget had been selling his grapes, rather than making and bottling his wines. For the 2015 vintage, Thibaud took on the family responsibilities, and all grapes were vinified at the Domaine. We were the first to discover and ship his wines to any export market. Showing his wines at our London Burgundy tasting in January 2017 marked the international launch of this newly thrilling Domaine. Today, his wines are available in 28 countries.