The 2020 Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots is another success, bursting with aromas of sweet spices, berries and petals, followed by a medium to full-bodied, ample and lively palate and concluding with a saline finish. Open and perfumed, it was vinified with 50% whole bunches.

Notes of peonies and rose, mingled with aromas of wild berries and warm spices, introduce the 2019 Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots, a medium to full-bodied, ample and perfumed wine that's supple and charming, with melting tannins and lively acids. It's an especially sensual rendering of this site.

Unfurling in the glass with scents of rose petals, orange rind, sweet berry fruit and spices, the 2018 Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots is medium to full-bodied, ample and layered, with a fleshy, perfumed core of fruit, lively acids and a precise finish. This is a charming but serious Satenots that will offer a broad drinking window.

The 2017 Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots offers up aromas of red berries, peonies, smoked meats and a deft framing of toasty new oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied, lively palate that's supple and delicate. Forward and expressive, this will offer a broad drinking window.

Lavish aromas of blackberries, rose petal and grilled game bird preface the 2016 Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots, a medium to full-bodied, broad and expansive wine with a velvety chassis of structuring tannin, an ample and sapid core of fruit, tangy acids and a long, fragrant finish. This is a gourmand but precise Santenots from Eric Germain that is showing very well indeed.