Arnaud Baillot is an exciting new producer in Burgundy. He started just 10 years ago as a micro-negociant, purchasing grapes and making tiny batches from small plots. In the last decade he has acquired 10 hectares of vines around the Côte d’Or, farming organically and crafting beautiful, understated modern Burgundy.
Baillot’s wines sing from the glass with clarity and elegance – he uses just 15% new oak in his wines, and low sulfites. Each cuvée shows its origin with honesty and precision, and today’s Volnay is one of our favorites. From a superb vintage that’s tailor made for Baillot’s style, this is low on intervention, alcohol, and artifice.
Baillot’s 2022 Volnay is deep and floral with red fruits bursting from the glass alongside violets and cassis. It’s beautifully concentrated and perfectly defined, with a sleek, low-oak profile on the palate. Volnay is known for elegance, and this has it in spades, but there’s more concentration than we expected at the village level – strawberry, raspberry, and blue fruits. This should age terrifically, but has already been hard for us to keep our hands off since it arrived last year.
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Baillot Volnay 2022
bottle price: $85
