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2012 Volnay, Camille Giroud, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - mature
Product: 20128024107
2012 Volnay, Camille Giroud, Burgundy

Description

David makes a delicious village Volnay from the Lurets and Grands Champs vineyards. It has an excellent mid purple colour, some fine and elegant Volnay fruit, and a more substantial mouthful through the middle, followed by the elegant perfume of Volnay comes in behind.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director

Winemaker and general manager, David Croix, has been grumbling that he feels he has the temperament of a grower rather than the deal-making knack of a born negoçiant, so he hasn’t found it easy to fill the cellar in 2012. We also find that tasting with him feels like being in a grower’s cellar, though Camille Giroud only owns a couple of vineyards. There are, nevertheless, one or two really exciting new wines here this year, notably the Volnay Santenots, and the whole cellar is on top form.

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Maturity Ready - mature
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Maison Camille Giroud

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Maison Camille Giroud

Established in 1865, Maison Camille Giroud has a rich heritage rooted in Burgundy’s winemaking tradition. Initially a specialist négociant, they sourced wines from esteemed growers across the renowned Côte d’Or region, ageing them meticulously in their cellars for decades to achieve peak maturity.
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