Volnay Clos des Ducs, Domaine Marquis d'Angerville 2004

An elegant, fine and pure nose offers up the classic dried rose petal and mineral-infused aromatic profile gives way to wonderfully transparent and strikingly focused middle weight flavors that are linear, vibrant and suffused with that particular limestone and chalk quality of all great Clos des Ducs. This is not the most concentrated example that I have seen of this wine but it is genuinely one of the most refined and elegant, all wrapped in a slightly edgy finish that should round out with time in bottle. Note that while this will undoubtedly hold well in the cellar like virtually all vintages of Clos des Ducs, I would probably be inclined to drink this over the first 10 to 15 years of its life.