What's Pressoir Drinking - Clerget Volnay 1er Cru Carelle sous la Chapelle 2015

May 26, 2022

by Raj Vaidya

I have been working with Chef Daniel Eddy of Winner Restaurant in Brooklyn on the menu for our upcoming ‘Volnay & Pommard’ dinner at his place, and since Chef Daniel celebrated his 39th birthday this past weekend I thought it would be appropriate to get together with him to celebrate and inspire his creative juices a bit with a nice bottle. This bottling from my friend and young superstar winemaker Thibault Clerget was the perfect elixir to get him excited and working on the menu.

The Carelle sous la Chapelle sits just north of the Champans vineyard on the gentle, lower slope of the premier crus of Volnay, just downhill from the village center. Thibault’s bottling is characteristically spicy and plum fruited, simultaneously rich and yet soft in tannin. This is, perhaps, a ‘Pommardian’ Volnay given that Thibault’s domaine lies in the village of Pommard, yet it had the distinctive velvety texture of the central area of Volnay. Very long finish and surprising freshness for a youthful 2015, some of which can come off a little heavy.

Hope to see you at the dinner on June 7th where we dig further into the two neighboring villages and get to taste the results of Chef Eddy’s inspiration…