2016 Domaine Jean-Marc Bouley Volnay Vieilles Vignes, Cote de Beaune, Burgundy

2016 Domaine Jean-Marc Bouley Volnay Vieilles Vignes another winner! Silky soft scents of violets, jubes and crushed cherry. The palate is like gliding down a big hill of satiny silky flavours. Ripe strawberry and cherry fruit is supported by tightly wound tannin.  These tannins slip into the  background whilst more hints of fruit emerges. There is a toasty edge that works so well with the ripe fruit flavours. This wine can more than handle some more robust food such as beef daube and mash potato.

There is fine concentration to the delicious and sleek middle weight flavors that possess equally good punch and energy before terminating in a solidly complex and persistent finale. This isn't especially refined but it does possess good underlying material.