Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. Very deep and lucid in color, Henri Boillot’s Volnay 1er Cru Frémiets 2011 has a modern bouquet with succulent red cherries, blackberry and cassis fruit, floral notes developing with time. The palate is very solid with a lot of oak that submerges the fruit toward the dense finish. This feels rather overdone and generic compared to its peers.