2010 Volnay, Jean-Yves Devevey, Burgundy

2010 Volnay, Jean-Yves Devevey, Burgundy

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Description

With vibrant red and black fruit on the nose and palate, this wine is kept fresh by the acidity. Tannins are soft and silky and everything is in place and in harmony.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Director

The indefatigable Jean-Yves Devevey has enjoyed a good year, with new vineyards in place and the burden of debt from having created his own business from scratch now largely paid off. His whites have been consistent in both quality and value for some time, but 2010 marks a step forward with the reds. He has taken a gentler approach to the vinification, with a shorter time in vat and less intervention, so as to accentuate the graceful fragrance of the Pinot Noir grape.

The three reds and the two less expensive whites are domaine wines while the two Chassagnes and the Meursault are produced from purchased grapes – regular contracts with the same producers each year.

A clean and pretty nose of red fruits with a hint of earthiness. This has a gentle charm that’s easy to appreciate.
Valiant Ki, London Shop

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Jean-Yves Devevey

Jean-Yves Devevey

You wouldn’t know it from his laid-back manner, but Jean-Yves Devevey is a busy man. Built from scratch, his domaine today amounts to eight hectares of vines.

His holdings can be described as “diminutive but demanding”, especially when one considers his exacting standards, including organic farming.

A popular figure among his fellow Burgundian winemakers, Jean-Yves is also something of a maverick, who has been flying the flag for low-sulphur wines since 2010. Moreover, he’s the only Burgundian we work with to have planted Savagnin – sadly, the wine is not for sale.

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Volnay

Volnay

The finest and most elegant red wines of the Côte de Beaune are grown in Volnay, a village which might be twinned with Chambolle- Musigny in the Côte de Nuits, for the high active chalk content in the soil and comparatively low clay content.

Whereas in earlier times Volnay was made in a particularly light, early drinking style, these days there are many producers making wines which age extremely well. The best vineyards run either side of the RN73 trunk road.
  • 98 hectares of village Volnay
  • 115 hectares of Premier Cru vineyards (35 in all). The finest include Les Taillepieds, Clos des Chênes, Champans, Caillerets (including Clos des 60 Ouvrées) and Santenots in Meursault.
  • Recommended producers:  LafargeLafonde Montille

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Pinot Noir

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.

Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.

The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.

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