From the “du Dessus” portion of the site, Prieur’s 2005 Volnay Santenots offers a nose and mouth full of vivid black raspberry and Maine blueberries wreathed in herbs and flowers and dusted with salt and chalk. Bright...
From the “du Dessus” portion of the site, Prieur’s 2005 Volnay Santenots offers a nose and mouth full of vivid black raspberry and Maine blueberries wreathed in herbs and flowers and dusted with salt and chalk. Bright, clear, and tender for all of its liqueur-like sweetness, this displays admirably pure and infectiously juicy finishing fruit and will give lots of short-term pleasure, although about its developmental potential I hesitate to speculate. - David Schildknecht