Bitouzet-Prieur, Volnay 1er Cru Caillerets, 2010
Three barrels a year. That is what François Bitouzet pulls from his 0.15-hectare slice of Les Caillerets, the iconic Volnay 1er Cru wedged between the holdings of d'Angerville and de Montille. The 2010 vintage in Burgundy was tiny but extraordinary, pure and structured, and fifteen years on this bottle is just beginning to show what it can do. Bitouzet works the cellar in the most classical Volnay manner: destemmed berries, two-week cuvaison, twice-daily pigeage, malo in barrel, then twenty months of patient elevage. The result is exactly what people mean when they invoke the word Volnay: silken Pinot Noir from limestone marl, scented and precise, transparent to the place. A textbook expression of one of the Cote de Beaune's prototypical sites, finally entering its drinking window.
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Three barrels a year. That is what François Bitouzet pulls from his 0.15-hectare slice of Les Caillerets, the iconic Volnay 1er Cru wedged between the holdings of d'Angerville and de Montille. The 2010 vintage in Burgundy was tiny but extraordinary, pure and structured, and fifteen years on this bottle is just beginning to show what it can do. Bitouzet works the cellar in the most classical Volnay manner: destemmed berries, two-week cuvaison, twice-daily pigeage, malo in barrel, then twenty months of patient elevage. The result is exactly what people mean when they invoke the word Volnay: silken Pinot Noir from limestone marl, scented and precise, transparent to the place. A textbook expression of one of the Cote de Beaune's prototypical sites, finally entering its drinking window.
