Help with a Volnay Tasting

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If you had to put the following wines into flights how would you flight them out? Thanks.

1996 Bouchard HdB Santenots Cuvee Gauvin
1996 Champy Les Caillerets
1996 Lafarge Clos Des Chenes
1996 Laurent Clos Des Chenes

1997 Gagnard-Delagrange Champans
1997 Girardin Clos Des Chenes
1997 Lafarge Volnay

1998 Bouchard Caillerets Ancient Cuvee Carnot
1998 Bouchard Clos Des Chenes
1998 Jadot Santenots

1999 Bouchard HdB Cuvee Jehan Massol
1999 Champy Santenots
1999 Jadot Clos de la Barre
1999 Jadot Santenots
1999 Lafarge Vendanges Selectionnee
1999 Potel Champans
1999 Potel Santenots
1999 Potel Taillepieds

2003 Potel Pitures

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Since terrior is my main interest, I would organize by vineyard from west moving east:

Far Western (actually within Mersault)

1996 Bouchard HdB Santenots Cuvee Gauvin
1998 Jadot Santenots
1999 Champy Santenots

1999 Jadot Santenots
1999 Potel Santenots
1999 Lafarge Vendanges Selectionnee (I believe this has declassified Santenots)

Western Volnay:

1997 Girardin Clos Des Chenes
1998 Bouchard Clos Des Chenes
1996 Lafarge Clos Des Chenes
1996 Laurent Clos Des Chenes

1997 Gagnard-Delagrange Champans
1999 Potel Champans
1999 Potel Taillepieds (shares borders with Champans)

1997 Lafarge Volnay
1996 Champy Les Caillerets
1998 Bouchard Caillerets Ancient Cuvee Carnot

Eastern Volnay
1999 Jadot Clos de la Barre
2003 Potel Pitures


1999 Bouchard HdB Cuvee Jehan Massol - No ide where this is from.

Sounds like a great tasting.

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Gregg,
That is fascinating and a great idea.

4

Gregg,

This Bouchard is from Santenots.

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Personally I’d go for vineyard flights like others mention. Certainly Santenots and Clos des Chenes will make educational flights. Perhaps then maybe a Champans vs. Caillerets as you have two of each. the rest is a bit of a mixed bag and east or west there will be as much or more vintage/producer difference than there will be vineyard. It seems like a lot of the straggling wines will have a hard time having a place in the theme and might get lost?

Sounds like fun, hope you post notes.

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As noted, there are multiple ways to do this tasting…I never thought about the directionality idea. The easy/obvious way would be to do vintages which will most likely be the case.

This is going to be for 14 people so, the less # of flights the better. Tasting is tomorrow, so, I guess that I’ll fill yall in on how it goes. Thanks for the help…and I’m still open for suggestions.

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I don’t see a better way of doing it than Gregg’s. I was actually thinking the same thing-since I got my burg maps framed I tend to think much more geographically. Plus the vintages are pretty similar.

-paul

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Just for reference, my group tasted back in 3/06. We are lucky to Robert Thorton in our group. He organized this tasting and brought a majority of the wines.

I love Volnay!

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