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2019 Volnay, Les Echards, Domaine Sébastien Magnien, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
For laying down
Neal Martin MW
88-90/100
Product: 20198019527
2019 Volnay, Les Echards, Domaine Sébastien Magnien, Burgundy

Description

Sébastien has 0.13 hectares here, from the top of the vineyard where it touches the Premier Cru Ronceret; he’s made just two barrels. Although manipulating such small volumes isn’t easy, he has trialled 50% whole-bunch, feeling it’s better suited to fruit from these lower vineyards. With aromas of blackcurrant coulis and violets, this is silk-textured and very appealing. Drink 2022-2030.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Alcohol % 13.5
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Sebastien Magnien

Critics reviews

Neal Martin MW 88-90/100
The 2019 Volnay Les Echards, from vines located just under La Ronceret and matured in one-third new oak, has a lively bouquet of red currant and cranberry scents, a touch of rose petal emerging with time. The well-balanced palate features sappy red berry fruit laced with brown spices and clove. There is still some new wood to be assimilated on the finish, so afford this Volnay 2–3 years in bottle. Neil Martin, Vinous.com
Neal Martin MW, Vinous.com

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Sebastien Magnien

No relation to the Côte de Nuits Magniens, young Sébastien comes instead from Meloisey in the Hautes Cotes de Beaune – a village whose wines were as well thought of as those of Volnay in the 14th century, and were served at the coronation of King Philip II Augustus in 1180. However to be in the thick of things Sébastien has transferred headquarters to revamped cellars in the middle of Meursault. White wines come from the Hautes Côtes, St Romain and Meursault, the red wines from Volnay, Pommard and the Hautes Côtes including an excellent Clos des Perrières from Meloisey. Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director and author of the award-winning Inside Burgundy comprehensive handbook.
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