Domaine François Mikulski Volnay 1er Cru Santenots-Du-Milieu
Tasted 29 February 2020
Côte de Beaune · Volnay 1er Cru
A fascinating wine, with a nose that blasts sea foam and oyster shells right into the back of the mouth...Like walking down a fog-covered beach in Point Reyes with seaweed-strewn sands and hundreds of mussels stuck…
A much more animated and complex bottle when compared to the listless dud of a delivery that slugged from the 2018 Charmes earlier this summer, the 2017 has all of the liveliness one would desire,…
Funky earth and dusty plum, with cedar, mushroom, salt rock, smoke, and wilted herb flavors. Slightly thin and watery on the finish. Medium all the way around. No fireworks here this time compared to…
Strike two with this wine. For lack of a better term, this wine was a bit of a snoozer. It was "fine" in the technical sense, but it really was just a flat affective display of fruit and minerality.…
