2021 Volnay, Les Lurets, 1er Cru, Camille Giroud, Burgundy

The 2021 Volnay Les Lurets 1er Cru has a tightly knit nose at first, with mainly red fruit, baking powder and light kirsch aromas emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, fine acidity, and quite linear and taut. The season just denies the substance that would complete this Lurets on the finish.

Drink 2024 - 2033

Medium crimson. The nose is out of sorts, a bit of oak, the fruit is less present and not quite fresh. Then starts to emerge. Particularly cherry like up front, sweeter raspberry behind, some crispness to the finish. I think at a difficult stage but there is good persistence, so should come through.

Drink 2025 - 2030

This is aromatically similar to the Volnay Villages, if perhaps just a bit more floral in character. The equally sleek, intense, and delicious medium-weight flavours offer equally good minerality on the compact, tautly muscular, and while not exactly rustic in the finale, it would be fair to describe the supporting tannins as not especially refined. Even so, this is quite good in its fashion and should repay up to a decade of keeping.

Drink from 2029 onward