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Marquis d'Angerville Volnay Clos des Ducs 2018 750ml
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Marquis d'Angerville Volnay Clos des Ducs 2018

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Domaine Marquis d’Angerville is one of Burgundy's most sought after estates, and perfectly exemplifies the identity of Volnay. D'Angerville's list of holdings touches all of the village’s great terroirs, including one of the most picturesque vineyards in Volnay, the monopole of the estate, Clos des Ducs. The domaine started bottling its own production in the 1920s after the current Marquis’ grandfather, Sem d’Angerville, challenged the blending methods of the negociants’ and then began bottling his own wines instead of selling them his grapes. D'Angerville was one of the first Burgundy domains to do this, making history and encouraging the future of the region at the same time. Today the estate is led by Guillaume d’Angerville, farmed immaculately, and is producing some of the best wines in the entire Cote d’Or.

An official act from the beginning of the 16th century already listed this plot, consisting of 52 'works', in the Domaine des Ducs de Bourgogne. The 'work', the ancient unit of surface area in Burgundy, represented the surface that a winegrower could take care of alone in one day. There are about 24 'works' in one hectare. Today the same plot covers an area of 2.15 hectares, identical to the 52 'works' measured in the 16th century. The soil is strongly calcareous, stony, poor, quite deep and clayey (white marl). The perfect south-east exposure guarantees ideal sunshine. The very steep slope of the vineyard allows a very good drainage. 

This is the greatest, most collectible wine of the Domaine. This wine, firm and elegant at the same time, plays in a league of its own. Its structure is complex and harmonious. Its aromas, very ample, give it an exceptional volume and a rare distinction. A wine for the cellar, it evolves slowly in bottle to reach a great fullness starting from 10 years from the vintage. Great vintages often require more time, and this wine, in the best vintages, can last for 25-30 years. 

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The 2018 Volnay Clos des Ducs 1er Cru the famous 2.15-hectare monopole of the domaine is matured in around 25% new oak although Guillaume d’Angerville mentioned that he intends to use less new oak in the future. It has a very intense bouquet of raspberry preserve kirsch blood orange and sous-bois aromas all displaying wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with fabulous density and complexity offering brambly red fruit blood orange orange peel suggestions of dark chocolate and of course wonderful mineral tension on the persistent finish which fans out beautifully. This is an exceptionally fine Volnay that will age for 30–40 years. 95-97

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The 2018 Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Ducs has turned out very nicely in bottle mingling aromas of raspberries and blood orange with hints of espresso roast and sweet soil tones. Medium to full-bodied concentrated and multidimensional it's impressively fine-boned and elegant the inherently muscular vintage notwithstanding with a vibrant core of fruit exquisitely powdery tannins and a long saline finish. If d'Angerville's 2018 Champans is a fine example of the year the Clos des Ducs by contrast transcends it. The 2019 vintage has turned out very well indeed at Domaine Marquis d'Angerville where Guillaume d'Angerville and François Duvivier have produced yet another superb portfolio. A touch finer-boned and more vibrant than the estate's 2018s?though the monopole Clos des Ducs always seems to transcend the vintage?the 2019s are beautiful wines that exemplify the elegant muscularity that I'd single out as this domaine's underlying signature over the decades. As I've written before followers of d'Angerville will be familiar with the protocol here: biodynamic farming destemmed grapes classical macerations and élevage in barrels?of which some 20% are new with older barrels generally being retained for five vintages. These have always been seriously long-lived wines but contemporary d'Angerville isn't quite as backward and slow to evolve as the wines were in the days of Guillaume d'Angerville's father. The use of barrels with a somewhat younger average age?even if percentages of new wood remain very modest?gives them a slightly glossier patina especially in their youth.

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