2010 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 1er Cru "Les Caillerets"

The 2010 Caillerets from the Lafarge family is quite beautifully and classically proportioned, with a properly reserved personality and outstanding structural integrity. The deep and primary nose offers up a lovely mix of cherries, quince, blood orange, woodsmoke, fresh herbs, a beautifully complex, stony base of soil and a nice touch of coffee in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, fullish and very intensely flavored, with a transparent personality, a sappy core of fruit, tangy acids, laser-like focus and outstanding length and grip on the ripely tannic and bouncy finish. This will be dynamite in the fullness of time, but it will need a good decade in the cellar to start to stir. (Drink between 2022-2060)