2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Clos des Chenes, Volnay Premier Cru, France Domaine La Patelle And with a record early

And with a record early vintage

The wines were then racked off lees and immediately bottled by gravity with no SO2 additions

One of the oldest known European grapes

It’s fermented using only natural yeasts and aged in 100% used French oak

2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Clos des Chenes, Volnay Premier Cru, France Domaine La Patelle And with a record earlyPinot Noir from old vine, uppermid slope parcels in Clos des Chnes on very shallow, stony limestone with thin brown clay; the domaine farms biodynamically and harvests by hand. Fruit is rigorously sorted, with a measured share of whole clusters when stems are perfectly ripe, then fermented with indigenous yeasts in open vats with gentle extraction. levage runs 1418 months in older 228 L pices with no new oak and minimal racking; SO is added only after