2023 Domaine Bernard & Thierry Glantenay Volnay 1er Cru Les Brouillards | 92 Point Burgundy

🔥 92 Point Volnay Premier Cru | 50-Year-Old Vines

Perfume, silky texture and mineral finesse — a beautiful expression of Premier Cru Volnay

Old vines. Tiny yields. Indigenous yeast. Classic Côte de Beaune elegance.

92 Points – The Wine Advocate

Exceptional Premier Cru Burgundy | Perfume, Purity & Finesse

“A beautifully expressive Volnay — ripe redcurrant and crushed strawberry, fine tannins and wonderful mineral definition.”

Tasting Notes

Appearance: Brilliant ruby-red with beautiful clarity and youthful crimson highlights.

Aroma: Immediately expressive with ripe redcurrant, raspberry, crushed strawberry and wild strawberry, layered with violet, subtle peppermint, bitter chocolate, cardamom and delicate earthy complexity.

Palate: Medium-bodied, finely structured and beautifully harmonious. Pure red berry fruit sits at the centre, carried by fine tannins and excellent mineral freshness. There's concentration without heaviness and a wonderful combination of generosity and classical Volnay finesse.

Finish: Long, fresh and beautifully detailed, with raspberry, strawberry, subtle spice and mineral notes lingering over fine tannins. The 2023 received 90–92 points from The Wine Advocate, which praised its open red-fruited bouquet, harmonious palate and fine minerality.

Critical Acclaim – 2023 Vintage

• 92 Points – The Wine Advocate

Another excellent result for a vineyard with a remarkably consistent critical record: the 2022 also received 92 Wine Advocate, while the 2020 earned 93.

Les Brouillards – Classic Premier Cru Volnay

Les Brouillards is a Volnay Premier Cru lying towards the Pommard side of the appellation.

That location helps explain the personality of the wine.

You still get the perfume and elegance associated with Volnay, but there's also genuine:

Depth • Structure • Savouriness • Tannin

It's a beautiful middle ground.

Volnay finesse with an extra layer of structure.

Previous vintages have been noted for ripe red fruits, florals, mineral character and enough tannin to reward cellaring, while retaining the delicacy that makes Volnay so compelling.

Vineyard & Winemaking

This is where the value proposition becomes particularly interesting.

The wine comes from approximately:

50-year-old Pinot Noir vines

with extraordinarily low yields reported at around:

15 hl/ha.

The fruit is:

Hand harvested

before fermentation for approximately two weeks in stainless steel, using:

Indigenous yeasts.

The wine then spends approximately:

16 months in French oak

with only:

20% new oak.

It is matured on lees, undergoes malolactic fermentation and is bottled without filtration.

That's beautifully traditional Burgundy winemaking.

And importantly, only 20% new oak means the emphasis remains where it should:

On the vineyard and the Pinot Noir.

Domaine Bernard & Thierry Glantenay

Thierry Glantenay is one of those Burgundy growers worth knowing.

The domaine is based in Volnay, with Thierry producing wines from an impressive collection of terroirs across Volnay and Pommard.

His approach is relatively restrained in the cellar. Rather than forcing extraction, the domaine has historically allowed fermentation itself to extract colour, flavour and tannin, with restrained pigeage and remontage and patient élevage in barrel.

The result is Burgundy built around:

Fruit • Terroir • Texture • Freshness

rather than excessive winemaking.

Region

Volnay 1er Cru, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, France

Volnay is one of Burgundy's great Pinot Noir villages.

Where neighbouring Pommard tends toward greater power and structure, Volnay is famous for:

Perfume • Red Fruit • Florals • Fine Tannins • Elegance

Les Brouillards brings a slightly more structured edge to that personality.

The result is Pinot Noir with enough substance to age but enough perfume and generosity to be extremely seductive.

Food Pairings

• Roast duck with wild mushrooms
• Duck breast
• Roast quail
• Veal with truffle
• Beef Bourguignon
• Venison
• Mushroom risotto
• Truffle pasta
• Comté or Gruyère

This is exactly the sort of Burgundy that comes alive with food.

Why We Love It

This is a seriously attractive Premier Cru Burgundy.

You're getting:

50-year-old Pinot Noir vines

Volnay Premier Cru

Les Brouillards

Tiny reported yields of 15 hl/ha

Hand-harvested fruit

Indigenous yeast fermentation

Only 20% new French oak

16 months élevage

92 Points – The Wine Advocate

And your RRP is:

$245.

For Premier Cru Volnay from mature vines and a respected grower, that's a compelling proposition in today's Burgundy market.

What I particularly like is the balance.

This isn't Burgundy built around sheer concentration or oak.

It's about raspberry, crushed strawberry, perfume, fine tannins and minerality — exactly the qualities that make great Volnay so seductive.

Perfumed. Silky. Mineral. Refined.

The 2023 Domaine Bernard & Thierry Glantenay Volnay 1er Cru Les Brouillards delivers the elegance of Volnay with enough structure and old-vine depth to make it a genuinely serious cellar proposition.

92 Wine Advocate. 50-Year-Old Vines. Volnay 1er Cru. $245 RRP.

👉 A beautiful Premier Cru Burgundy to enjoy with air now or cellar confidently for 10–15+ years.

Searching for exceptional Volnay Premier Cru? The 2023 Domaine Bernard & Thierry Glantenay Volnay 1er Cru Les Brouillards is a 90–92 point old-vine Pinot Noir from approximately 50-year-old vines cropped at just 15 hl/ha. Hand harvested, naturally fermented and matured for 16 months in French oak with only 20% new barrels, it combines raspberry, cherry, floral perfume and liquorice with fine tannins, mineral freshness and a long saline finish.