2021 Frédéric Cossard Chassorney Volnay 1er Cru 'Les Lurets'

The 2021 Volnay ‘Les Lurets’ leads with pretty, lifted notes of wild strawberries, lavender, and allspice.  Floral impressions take off immediately, as if the wine intended more at the outset and so turned to self-correcting.  The palate offers several distinct and developed lines: bing cherries, thyme/sage/lavender, the flowers rushing in again on the finish.  We’re shown the delicate particulars of the vintage though none of its potential excesses. 

From a small parcel of forty year old vines of Pinot Noir that the Cossards farm in the premier cru ‘Les Lurets’, this remains one of our favourite wines from the appellation. This cooler vintage has produced a more compact, pretty and perfumed expression of site that is impossible to resist.