Domaine De Montille Volnay Les Mitans 2016 Bottle (75cl)
The 2016 Domaine Hubert de Montille Volnay Les Mitans is a red Burgundy wine made from 100% Pinot Noir, produced on the Les Mitans plot in the Volnay Village appellation. The Wine Advocate awards it 90-92/100 and recommends drinking it from 2020 to 2035; Jancis Robinson rates it 17/20, with a drinking window from 2022 to 2032. Critics describe an elegantly textured Volnay with fine, firm tannins, supported by a balanced freshness and a delicate persistence.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Volnay
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Hubert De Montille
- Parcelle / Cru
- Les Mitans
- Millésime
- 2016
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Pinot Noir
Domaine Hubert De Montille
Domaine de Montille is a family-run estate based in Volnay, in the Côte-d’Or, whose vineyards now extend across the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits. Owned and managed by Étienne de Montille, it cultivates 37 hectares, predominantly in Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards, across appellations such as Volnay, Pommard, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet and Vosne-Romanée. The estate, historically associated with Volnay red wines, has also been producing white wines since the incorporation of the Château de Puligny-Montrachet vineyard.
- Owner
- Étienne de Montille
- Maître de chais
- Brian Sieve
- Surface (ha)
- 37.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- environ 180 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The estate’s origins date back to the 1730s, when the Chauvelot de Chevannes family, who owned vineyards, settled in Volnay. The estate took the name Domaine de Montille in 1863, following the marriage of Marie Éléonore Chauvelot de Chevannes to Étienne Joseph Marie Léonce Bizouard de Montille. In the 19th century, the estate comprised around 30 hectares of vineyards in the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits. However, the consequences of the phylloxera crisis and a series of sales reduced the estate’s holdings to around 2.5 hectares by the end of the Second World War. Hubert de Montille took over the estate in 1947 and set about gradually rebuilding the family vineyard, whilst producing and marketing his wines himself rather than selling the grapes to wine merchants. His son Étienne joined the estate in 1983, before becoming co-manager and head of winemaking in 1995, the year in which the transition to organic farming began. He took full charge of the estate in 2002 and subsequently expanded the vineyard, notably through the acquisition of plots in the Côte de Nuits between 2003 and 2005. In 2012, the estate acquired the Château de Puligny-Montrachet, adding around 15 hectares of white grape vineyards to its holdings. The vineyard now covers 37 hectares, and winemaking is overseen in the cellar by Brian Sieve, the cellar master, with Jacques Montagnon responsible for the white wine production processes.
Les Mitans
Les Mitans is a Volnay climat officially recognized among the 29 climats classified as Premier Cru within the appellation. It occupies the middle of the slope in the northern sector of the Volnay terroir, between Les Brouillards and En l'Ormeau. Sources dedicated to the site describe an east to south-east exposure and stony clay-limestone soils, drained by deep gravel.
- Vineyard commune
- Volnay
- Origin of the vineyard name
- “Mitans” means “middle” in Old French, referring to the climat's location midway up the slope.
- Exposure
- East to south-east
- Altitude
- 250–300 m
- Soil
- Clay-limestone and stony soils, with deep draining gravel
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 0.720000 ha
- Indicative vine age
- Vines described as being around 60 years old for the 2017 vintage.
Histoire de la parcelle
Early 16th-century writings mention this site among the possessions of the Confrérie du Saint-Sacrement, presented as the heir to the Templars' property. The climat was ranked as a "tête de cuvée" in Dr. Lavalle's classification published in 1855. Today it falls under the AOC Volnay, recognized in 1937, with the right to the Premier Cru designation.
