Domaine Michel Lafarge, Volnay 1er Cru Clos du Chateau des Ducs Monopole, 2023 071425OFFER The limestone-rich soils contribute a

The limestone-rich soils contribute a mineral backbone that underscores the wine’s finesse

Concentrated red and black cherry with notes of raspberry

16-18 months in French oak (max 30% new)

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Domaine Michel Lafarge, Volnay 1er Cru Clos du Chateau des Ducs Monopole, 2023 071425OFFER The limestone-rich soils contribute aClos du Chteau des Ducs is Lafarge's monopole wholly owned, walled, and planted at the very heart of the village of Volnay, on a site that once belonged to the Dukes of Burgundy. To drink this wine is to drink Volnay distilled to its essence: silky, precise, and unmistakably of place. Frdric Lafarge and daughter Clothilde bring the same biodynamic rigor and unhurried old oak levage to this tiny parcel as to every wine in their cellar, but the monopole