Lafarge's magnum-only cuvée is the 2020 Volnay 1er Cru Pitures, a medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated wine evocative of raspberries, sweet spices, rose petals and raw cocoa. Powerful and tightly wound, it will require and reward patience.

To be bottled exclusively in magnums, Lafarge's 2019 Volnay 1er Cru Pitures delivers a complex bouquet of spices, sweet berry fruit, incense, raw cocoa and potpourri. Medium to full-bodied, deep and enveloping, with serious underlying structure, it's another cuvée that's built to age.

Mingling aromas of sweet red berries and plums with notions of candied peel, raw cocoa and loamy soil, the 2018 Volnay 1er Cru Pitures is medium to full-bodied, powdery and refined, with good depth at the core and a long, mineral finish. This is an ethereal, elegant Pitures that will be strikingly transparent at maturity.

The 2017 Volnay 1er Cru Pitures will be bottled exclusively in magnum, Frédéric Lafarge observing that it's a wine that gains enormously with bottle age. Exhibiting aromas of wild berries, candied peel and raw cocoa, it's medium-bodied, layered and tensile, with good concentration and fine, chalky structure to burn, concluding with a beautifully defined finish.

The 2016 Volnay 1er Cru Pitures comes from chalky soils strewn with small stones, and like last year, it will be only bottled in magnum. It has plenty of black cherry and blackcurrant fruit on the nose, lively and pretty, just a subtle black olive note developing in the glass. The palate is very well balanced with succulent ripe tannin, well structured with a sorbet-like freshness, the finish offering blood orange and tangerine among the red berry fruit. Superb. Grab one of those mags.