Hi Berserkers, I don’t have a lot of experience with aged red Burgundy but I have the opportunity to try some with age at great prices. Which would you recommend from this list? Thanks in advance!
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Probably Pousse d’Or 2009
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My choices would be lafarge Volnay, or Bruno Clair Gevrey. Depends on your style preference. Pousse is always bigger and riper, In a warm 2009 that combo is not a style I care for.
lafarge volnay 2013…no doubt.
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2010 Magnien Charmes
My choice too
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Solid chance this is a list posted on the restaurant site that hasn’t been updated in several years, and few of these will actually be on the list you get at the table.
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I was wondering about this. How would a list like this survive with the pricing? There just aren’t that many places holding back stock inventory and then releasing the wines at prices from days gone by. Perhaps this place is a rare gem and good on them and the OP! Literally any of those wines at those prices would be just fine. If they have nearly 10 year old Lafarge I would be in on those.
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The Jean-Marc Vincent or the Lafarge.
Post Gerard Potel Pousse (ie post 1996) might have the greatest drop off in winemaking talent in burgundy. I’ve heard the wines have improved in recent years, but a dinner some of us did to check in on the 2000s produced mostly unintegrated oak and one bottle that smelled like Cheetos.
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I heard that 2019 Volnay 60 Ouvrees is excellent. Haven’t tasted it yet though.
They have supposedly built a state of the art facility and some people have said the wines are better (I believe Bill Nanson is one of them). A friend and I have been tentatively talking about going to taste next time I’m in Burgundy because we’re both curious. Domaines in Burgundy change so fast sometimes 
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Were it not for the lone 2019 on the list I would feel almost certain that this is a case of a wine list that has not been updated for years. Great prices indeed.
I’d go with 10 charmes.
The Laurent is a steal. Be sure to get it very vigorously decanted to get the CO2 out.
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The Lafarge, but probably Beaune 2011, because it will be the closest to full maturity …
I´m no fan of 2013 … they are often acidity driven and a bit harsh … and many 2012s are not really singing now … in another 3 years the Laurent 2012 would have been my choice …
Pousse d´Or 2009 should also be fine, but still a bit young …
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Laurent or Burguet, which is always very solid and '10 is a nice year.
Thanks everyone for your recommendations. It’s a private club with a large cellar so they are not trying to maximize profit. The list is relatively up to date but they might be out of a few listings so I’ll have a backup in mind just in case! Sounds like the Lafarge Volnay is highly recommended so I’ll start with that.
Burguet also a good choice. I like 13 but not sure that lafarge will be ready.
I drank a 16 Lafarge Volnay VS very recently. It was quite lovely. Certainly there are large vintage variations at play here but I’m much more in the camp of drink village wines on the younger side. They’re plush and lovely when done well and I find that their upside is marginal compared to the potential downside of them getting worse, not better. Perhaps the 13 is some not fully resolved bottle that hasn’t hit some unknown and likely unknowable apex but more likely it will be a very nice bottle of Volnay from an excellent producer.
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Yep. Those two, esp. the Volnay, stuck out to me as well. Lafarge is one of the great producers of Burgundy, and in particular one of the big two (with D’Angerville) of Volnay.