D'Angerville is the model of Volnay sophistication. De-stemmed, suave, ripe red and blue-fruited, with polished tannins mainly coming from the pump over-only protocol during fermentation. This house style meshes brilliantly with the chalky, heavily limestone-dominant Volnay terroir.

The 2021 Burgundy vintage was a cool one and small in quantity—precisely the scenario that has me surgically choosing bottles for my own cellar before these disappear from the market! Our importer offered the 2020s in concert to soften the blow from the minuscule quantities available for the following year.