2015 - Volnay 1er Cru Les Caillerets, Nicolas Rossignol

(entirely destemmed): Healthy medium-deep red. Knockout soil-inflected aromas of red cherry, raspberry, dried flowers, spices and underbrush. Wonderfully refined and energetic on the palate, with its fresh, sharply delineated red fruit and earth flavors boasting terrific inner-mouth tension and class--not to mention delicacy--for the vintage. Not as thick as some of these '16s, this still-tight beauty opens out on the back end like a peacock's tail, leaving the salivary glands humming. Ten years will be just the beginning of the game for this wine, offered Rossignol.