Volnay Premier Cru 'Les Taillepieds', Domaine de Montille, 2024
Volnay Premier Cru 'Les Taillepieds', Domaine de Montille, 2024
- 75cl
- 13.5%
- Red Still
- Pinot Noir
- Organic
- Biodynamic
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Optimal drinking window: 2028 - 2045
Few names carry quite the weight that de Montille does in Volnay, and Les Taillepieds is where that reputation was built. This Premier Cru sits on the steep, stony upper slopes above the village, a vineyard famous for giving wines with more backbone and grip than the lace-and-silk Volnay stereotype suggests.
"The most serious Volnay in the line-up. Bark, beef stock and forest floor lead into stewed red fruit beneath. Chalky, saline and long, with refined tannins emerging as it opens."
Ksenia Pashkova, Club Merchandiser
2024 was a genuinely demanding year in the Côte de Beaune. Persistent rain and humidity from spring through harvest slashed yields and put relentless pressure on vineyard work, with timing and selection absolutely critical. At de Montille, decisions were calm, precise and unapologetically classical. Picking was about accuracy rather than courage, extraction was handled with restraint, and élevage kept firmly in service of site expression.
The results are impressive. These are not showy wines, but deeply articulate ones: transparent, savoury, and built to age. In a vintage where excess was an easy trap, de Montille has delivered wines that speak clearly of place, confirming once again why this remains one of the Côte de Beaune’s most serious and intellectually satisfying domaines, even when conditions are at their most uncooperative.
Domaine de Montille is one of Tim Atkin's Top 10 Côte de Beaune Red Wine Producers.
What the critics say:
"The 2024 Volnay Les Taillepieds 1er Cru is also two-thirds whole bunch this year. Attractive red fruit dallies around with black tea and rooibos scents unfurling confidently in the glass. Fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, crisp acidity nicely focused with good substance on the slightly peppery musky finish. Very fine."
"This is the most structured of the Volnay premiers crus from this domaine. The aromas are reticent at first and open only on the palate with a pleasantly plummy fruit and a rich feel that lingers moreishly. The grapes are from 80-year-old vines on gravel soils over limestone; this wine is superb, if slightly forbidding, and may need 10 years to come around. Fermented as 90% whole bunches."
Les Taillepieds lies on the upper, steeper part of the Volnay slope, where thin, stony limestone-clay soils force the vine's roots deep in search of water and nutrients. The exposure is cooler than much of the village, and the resulting wines carry more structure and less immediate charm than Volnay's reputation might suggest. It is a site that rewards low yields and old vines, both of which de Montille has in abundance here.
Volnay Premier Cru sits within one of the Côte de Beaune's most admired red wine villages, prized for producing Pinot Noir of perfume and finesse rather than power. Les Taillepieds is something of an outlier within that reputation, giving wines with firmer tannins and more savoury depth than neighbouring climats like Caillerets or Champans. It is Volnay for those who want structure alongside the scent.
The 2024 growing season in Burgundy was, frankly, a test of nerve. A wet spring brought significant mildew pressure, and vignerons who stayed sharp in the vineyard — working fast, keeping canopies open, reducing yields where necessary — came out the other side with something worth talking about. Summer brought warmer, drier conditions that helped the fruit recover composure, and harvest arrived broadly on the later side, with growers picking carefully to find phenolic ripeness without sacrificing freshness. Quantity was down across much of the Côte, which concentrates minds as much as it concentrates wine.
What emerged is a vintage that rewards those who put the work in. The Pinots we have tasted carry real precision and translucency — not because they are light, but because the acidity is lively and the fruit unforced. Chardonnays from the Côte de Beaune look particularly promising: taut, mineral, with genuine length. This is not a vintage to panic-open. Most village and premier cru reds want three to five years at minimum, with the better appellations drinking well until 2035 and beyond. The whites are more approachable now, though the best will reward patience too.
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