The 2019 Volnay 1er Cru Les Chevrets offers up aromas of plums, cassis, orange rind, petals and raw cocoa. Medium to full-bodied, lively and nicely concentrated, it's bright and fine-boned, concluding with a long finish. Produced from almost 60-year-old vines, this is a long-time fixture of the range.

The 2018 Volnay 1er Cru Les Chevrets is showing beautifully, unfurling in the glass with aromas of cherries, rose petals, cassis and violets. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, with an ample chassis of powdery tannins, fine concentration and succulent acids. From a parcel of 58-year-old vines, this is a quintessentially elegant Volnay that should also drink well young.

Wafting from the glass with aromas of small red berries, raw cocoa and rose petal, the 2017 Volnay 1er Cru Les Chevrets is medium to full-bodied, melting and satiny, with a gourmand core of fleshy and succulent tannins that largely conceals its structuring tannins, balanced by an animating line of acidity.

Boillot's 2015 Volnay 1er Cru Les Chevrets offers up an attractive nose of creamy red cherry, spice and asphalt, followed by a medium to full-bodied, firm but elegant palate with a core of attractively juicy, crunchy fruit. A very nice Volnay 1er Cru.

The 2014 Volnay 1er Cru Les Chevrets showed a little more fruit concentration, a bit more pizzazz on the nose compared to the Volnay Fremiets: cranberry and black plum, undergrowth note emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy red and black fruit. There is a little coarseness here at the moment, although it should be abraded by time. The finish is quite Pommard-like--austere but nicely defined.