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The August 2023 Auction: Part 3
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Estimate: $65
Very lightly scuffed capsule, very lightly stained label.
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"This is the flagship premier cru bottling from Domaine Voillot, as this is their largest parcel, totaling 1.7 hectares. The vines are mostly quite old, with a section having been replanted after the frosts of 1984, but the vast majority here either dating from 1971 or 1934. The 2016 Champans chez Charlot is superb, soaring from the glass in a complex and very pure blend of red plums, cherries, a hint of orange peel, smoke, fresh herb tones, pigeon, a lovely topnote of spice and just a whisper of cedary wood from its older casks. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and loaded with sappy red fruit at the core, with a very soil-driven personality, great focus and grip and lovely structural tension on the long and ripely tannic finish. This is the best example of Champans I have tasted from the 2016 vintage."
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"This is the flagship premier cru bottling from Domaine Voillot, as this is their largest parcel, totaling 1.7 hectares. The vines are mostly quite old, with a section having been replanted after the frosts of 1984, but the vast majority here either dating from 1971 or 1934. The 2016 Champans chez Charlot is superb, soaring from the glass in a complex and very pure blend of red plums, cherries, a hint of orange peel, smoke, fresh herb tones, pigeon, a lovely topnote of spice and just a whisper of cedary wood from its older casks. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and loaded with sappy red fruit at the core, with a very soil-driven personality, great focus and grip and lovely structural tension on the long and ripely tannic finish. This is the best example of Champans I have tasted from the 2016 vintage."
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