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

Good dark red. Very ripe aromas of blackberry liqueur, licorice and molten dark chocolate. Plush, ripe and sweet in the mouth, but a bit less refined and primary than the 2015 version, in spite of showing a cool minty nuance. Finishes with serious but nicely ripe tannins.

The 2014 Volnay 1er Cru Fremiets is a vineyard that tends to ripen the first. Guillaume d'Angerville opined that the wine from this vineyard has "gained momentum" in recent vintages. It has a very perfumed, floral bouquet with wilted rose petals infusing the vibrant red cherry and raspberry fruit, a distant tang of the sea in the distance. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannin, a little spicier than the Clos des Angles, smooth and fleshy in texture, gently building to a caressing finish that is very...Fremiets. Give this 2-3 years before broaching, preferably longer.

A little more spice than in the Clos des Angles but also an inviting cherry-vanilla sweetness. A good deal firmer in texture than the Clos des Angles. Lightish in weight/body, dry in finesse. All held in a refined dry structure. So precise and accomplished. (JH)