Domaine Georges Glantenay Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots 2020

Domaine Georges Glantenay Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots 2020

Guillaume Glantenay is the sixth generation of his family to run this Domaine, which he took over from his father in 2013. His father still works the estate’s eight hectares of vineyard, four of which are in Volnay, while Guillaume runs the new cuverie. For those who remember the wines from his father’s time, Guillaume has brought a greater elegance to the wines, and lovely purity of fruit. He uses about 15-20% whole bunch to lift the perfumes and low toast oak to support rather than mask these aromas.

The vineyard is located in the commune of Meursault, on the boundary of the Volnay and Meursault appellations. Soils here are a mixture of clay and limestone with chalky marl subsoils. The vines are Guyot trained and are an average age of 60 years old. The crops are tended to by hand and are consistently monitored during the year in order to keep the number of treatments required to a minimum.

"Grown on thick red clay. No deeper in colour despite the clay. The bouquet has generous red fruit, with more red cherries here and some strawberries. The tannins are correct, the acidity gives a slight acidulated character to the red fruit, attractive and quite long. " Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy