Domaine de Montille Volnay 1er Cru Les Mitans 2019

Domaine de Montille Volnay 1er Cru Les Mitans 2019

An overtly spicy and floral-scented nose reveals additional notes of plum

This is a bouquet that demands attention and in this blind tasting

a giant of a wine that smashes your palate with sweet fruit and nearly tears it apart

concentrated and generously proportioned medium-bodied flavors that are blessed with plenty of dry extract that simultaneously coats the palate and buffers the moderately firm tannic spine

The textured and velvety broad-shouldered flavors also enjoy stunningly good concentration and power while displaying an almost pungent minerality on the powerful and borderline painfully intense finish that just goes on and on

culminating in a slightly austere and ever-so-mildly dry finish of solid though not exceptional persistence

I clearly underrated the 1994 from my earliest barrel tastings

rich wine whose tannins are getting silkier and silkier

which is more delicate than powerful

it remains youthful and will continue to positively develop as the full-bodied

especially within the context of the vintage

The 1996 Syrah Eisele Vineyard (350 cases) is a full-bodied