For reports and full tasting notes, go to Tim Atkin MW's website.

There's just one cuvée of 2021 Volnay Village chez Lafarge this year, and it's an attractive wine, exhibiting aromas of raspberries, rose petals and loamy soil, followed by a medium-bodied, fleshy and mouthwatering palate.

The 2021 Volnay Village has a bright but classically-styled bouquet with tertiary, tobacco-tinged red fruit, the oak neatly integrated (though there is no new wood here.) The palate is medium-bodied, open and generous with grainy tannins, fine acidity and a saline finish. Maybe a little monochrome compared to other vintages, but it should give a decade's drinking pleasure.

Cask sample. Bright, dark-mid ruby. Seems very Volnay in its velvety, suave fruit. Very floral nose. Lacks a bit of punch on the mid palate and not showing great length. It’s very pretty though. (MH)