Volnay "Sur Roches" - 2019 - Maxime Dubuet Boillot

100% Pinot Noir, from vines planted in 1953 on a 0.8-hectare plot with a fairly steep slope, scattered rock outcroppings, and abundant pebbles and limestone scree which provides good drainage for the soil. The grapes are harvested by hand and sorted in the cellar, with only the best fruit used to produce the Sur-Roches cuvée. Vinification: whole grape bunches are fermented 20 days in vats, with pumping over and punching down of the cap, followed by gentle pressing and settling by gravity. Matured for 18 months in oak barrels, 30% of which are new.