Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Nose has confectionary up the wazoo. Cherries dropped in a vat of cherry dust. Lovely stoney background and serious lift. Really powdery and refined. Sure it will open more. Palate is lush, sweet and decadent. Loads of tiny berry sweet cherry fruit and likely definition and clarity. Right as to be expected and will improve with air. Very fresh with extremely fine tannins and length. Great acidity. This is a 20+ year wine no doubt. — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

One of my favorite Volnays. Gorgeous, pungent aromas, red cherry galore, hint of spicey oak, floral, earth and mineral. Really wide open aromatically. Layered and just fantastically complex. Palate is super pure and so juicy with wonderful silken sweet tannins and a zen like texture. So good. Wonderful medium bodied yet substantial wine with incredible depth and purity. Truly wonderful. Awesome laser like clarity on the cherry fruit. Super long finish. — 4 years ago

Severn G

9.1

Prior notes apply, just a delicious bottle.

Decanted ~60m.
80% Pinot Noir + 20% Gamay. One barrel produced. — 5 years ago

Jae Cho

9.0

Nice wine and over delivers for village des. Limpid and flawless safe zone from a less than inspired suburban version of Bouley. — 6 years ago

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Mat Wilson

9.2

Chill it A bit and enjoy with basically anything. A great find and far better than ratings indicate. — 7 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

This is insanely great. In warm vintages I find Volnay and Pommard always delivery. 03/05/09/15. More warm vintages to come! Beautiful nose of tea leaf, earthy loamy minerality, gorgeous deep red cherry fruit that is almost exotic with a hint of licorice. Amazing fruit on this nose. But also really complex. Stunning. Fresh, elegant and beautifully balanced with ripe fruit but also cleansing acidity, some grippy tannin and big time depth. Amazingly fine tannins as it airs out. Like velvet. Stunning. I can’t believe how great this is. Will last 20 more years. — 7 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Nose is steely, mineral and refined. Apple skins, lime zest. Very very mineral as St. Romain tends to be. Palate is terrific. Juicy, super pure and very concentrated with outstanding clarity and freshness. Best version yet. Lovely balance. Very complex and so delicious. This is a great wine. So chewy on the finish. Green fruits all the way. — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Super stoney nose with black cherry, black cherry compote, mineral and herbs. Really wonderful, fresh and complex. Mashed flowers. Stunningly deep and layered. Palate is deep, elegant and wonderfully finesse driven. Sappy and pure but so light on its feet. Wonderful palate that is at once silky and also structured and deep. Amazingly sweet black and dark red cherries. Long finish. Needs to open but all there. — 4 years ago

Ben Christen

8.9

Nice school night wine — 5 years ago

Kurt Schuster

8.9

Rich and concentrated fruits are available in abundance here. intense flavors of blackberries and plums are present throughout along with clover spices. Fairly acidic, but I think it needs it to keep the structure tight.  — 5 years ago

JKT

9.1

Dinner Cindy Roy Jane crew 5/9/19 at Andiamo. Terrific Volnay. Earth and minerals and red fruit with balanced and complex palate and long finish. Good structure and weight yet lively on feet. Roys fav. — 6 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Insanity on the nose. Just bonkers. Sickness. Huge spice. Huge I mean huge spice. Also super mineral and very pure. Confectionary cotton candy like aromas and tree bark. Also tea. Maybe hoisin as well. Mindblowing. Big palate and immense power but incredibly elegant. It has Grand Cru grip and intensity and it is considered the best wine at the estate. Better than Clos des Chenes. It is insanely powerful and stacked to the brim with bright fruit and mineral that has sap, and really stains the palate. I think in 2 hours this will be insane. It’s changing every minute. What a wine. — 7 years ago

Danny Martinez

9.0

Solid addition as recommended by Vin. Would buy again. Random Saturday night byob Thai up off broadway and Hollywood. Good food. Better husband. Always nice to have a good one around when things go sideways... both the husband and the rosé. — 7 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Nose is a bit woody but also clear and precise. Cherry pit, red cherry flesh. Brambley raspberries. Palate has great concentration and such tiny berry fruit intensity. Black cherry and black cherry pastille. Superb purity and great cut and flavor delineation. A little better than a recent 17 Robardelle. Sappy and fresh. Just lovely stuff. These need really 24 hours to become more elegant and expressive but very very good now with a 45 minute splash decant. — 4 years ago

Severn G

9.1

No notes, sorry.

12.5H drive to the Chicago suburbs to spend some time with my in-laws for Thanksgiving week, best traffic ever, practically none until the Illinois/Indiana line. — 4 years ago

Seth Tracy

9.4

Dark cherry, smooth — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Just a joyous wine made from ridiculously low yields that has wonderful depth. Crazy depth for its category. Wow. What it lacks in finesse it makes up for in palate impact. Nose is cherry and leafy, palate is concentrated, high toned cherry, sour cherry, mid season cherry and black cherry and super sap and freshness. Tiny berry fruit intensity. Wow. — 6 years ago

Maciej Kurka

9.4

Splendid. Robardelle is parceled in village and premier levels and this one kinda rare was very good — 7 years ago

Adam Gäfvert

9.0

Röda äpplen, honung, nougat, mogna citroner, kex och vissa gräsiga/örtiga undertoner. Tydliga snäckskal och fin mineralitet. Öppnar knastrigt i texturen men övergår snabbt åt klunkvänliga håller. Stora glas för denna! — 7 years ago

Severn G

9.3

Nose is a little toasty oak, blueberry juice, and blackberry.

Palate has oak-like cherry but very restrained on woody aspects, mid-season supermarket cherry, ripe plum, red raspberry, blackberry, TBD mineral, perfect acid levels!

I want to drink everything I have at this level, decanted for over one hour and this is absolutely perfect, nothing in the way of enjoyment. Pierrick Bouley is genius.

24hr Update: Nice giant (size-wise, not overpowering, the large sized berries have a more subtle flavor) blueberry flavor. Oak is more noticeable today, but not obtrusive to the red/blue fruits, a gentle compliment, perfect today. — 7 years ago