2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Clos du Chateau des Ducs, Volnay Premier Cru, France Emme Wines iron-rich schist soils on Côte

iron-rich schist soils on Côte Brune’s steep slopes

95% Sangiovese

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It is an elegant and understated wine with just enough grip to let you know it was skin-fermented but not too much to turn off the ‘casual’ orange wine drinker

The fruit was fermented open-air in a traditional oak French cuve

2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Clos du Chateau des Ducs, Volnay Premier Cru, France Emme Wines iron-rich schist soils on Côtefrom the domaines walled monopole in the heart of Volnay on very shallow, stony limestone with thin brown clay; farmed biodynamically and harvested by hand. Fruit is rigorously sorted with a measured share of whole clusters when stems are perfectly ripe, then fermented with indigenous yeasts in open vats with gentle extraction. levage runs 1418 months in older 228 L pices (no new oak) with minimal racking; SO is added only after malolactic, and