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Manage Subscriptions2005 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrières
Chardonnay
- France
- Burgundy
- Côte de Beaune
- Meursault 1er Cru
Community Tasting Notes 13
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Mag357 Likes this wine: 94 points
February 29, 2024 - Rich, decadent and made in the old fashion style, with scents of grilled hazelnuts, marzipan pastry and citrus oil, followed by a dense mouthfeel, rich, concentrated, balanced by its dry extract, ending quite long in a chalky inflected opulent finish, lacking a bit of nerve, but this is a Rubens like beauty, and now at peak.
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liber Likes this wine: 93 points
September 23, 2022 - 2nd of 2, opened 30 minutes, perfect cork and level, as April bottle, maybe slightly darker, burnt butter element, complex, oily and huge even for Perrieres, more citrus would improve it, hint of pox around the corner and colour worrying, flavours and energy however suggest could yet improve but I'd drink up on balance of risk. F+ (18).
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liber Likes this wine: 93 points
April 1, 2022 - 1st of 2 bottles, opened 20 minutes, perfect cork and level, golden and unctuous; mainly orchard fruit, slightly honeyed, just enough citrus, some mineral, complex and classy; full, long, persistent, concentrated, oily 05 and perhaps oversized, blessed with nearly enough citrus to bring into some sort of balance, special if you like this sort of thing, seems fully mature with little upside, hint of pox risk and colour would suggest early drinking necessary, even if Lafon tends to be on the buttery golden side in my experience. F+ (18).
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Benoit Hardy wrote: 88 points
February 27, 2021 - Extremely buttery nose.
Massive on the palate on nuts, the attack is straightforward.
The juice is dense, the hazelnut will gain the upper hand with aeration. Moreover, aeration will have a decisive effect on the wine, but in a rather negative way.
The lack of tension was noticeable from the start, and will intensify. The wine tends to become clumsy and this problem of balance will influence the length of the wine. If the finish is like the attack, massive and buttery, the length is pretty ordinary.
It's good but far from transcendent considering the pedigree. I would even say that this bottle seems to have already passed its peak given its evolution over the tasting. -
LB88 wrote: 93 points
September 22, 2020 - PNP, needed to be decantered. Lovely aromas of fresh apples mixed with fresh citrus fruits. Dense and lightly reductive flavors which just got better with more air. Alas it was at its apogee just towards the end of the evening with the final glass.
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By Stephen Tanzer
Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault Perrières 1984-2014 (Dec 2019), 12/1/2019 (link)(Domaine Des Comtes Lafon Meursault Perrières 1er Cru White) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Allen Meadows
April 2013, Issue #50 (link)(Domaine Comtes Lafon Meursault "Perrières" 1er 1er Cru White) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Gilman
May/Jun 2012, Issue #39, Domaine des Comtes Lafon: Meursault’s and the Mâconnais’ Greatest Estate(Meursault “Perrières”- Domaines des Comtes Lafon) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Allen Meadows
3rd Quarter, 2008, Issue #31 (link)(Domaine Comtes Lafon Meursault Les Perrières 1er Cru White) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
8/6/2007 (link)(Dom des Comtes Lafon, Perrières Meursault White) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Allen Meadows
3rd Quarter, 2007, Issue #27 (link)(Domaine Comtes Lafon Meursault Les Perrières 1er Cru White) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Gilman
Nov/Dec 2006, Issue #6, The 2005 Burgundy Vintage : Great Reds and Pleasant Whites(Comtes Lafon Meursault “Perrières”) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Stephen Tanzer
July/August 2006, IWC Issue #127 (link)(Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault Les Perrieres) Subscribe to see review text.
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2005
- Type White
- Producer Domaine des Comtes Lafon
- Varietal Chardonnay
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard Les Perrières
- Country France
- Region Burgundy
- SubRegion Côte de Beaune
- Appellation Meursault 1er Cru
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- In Cellars 106 (59%)
- Consumed 74 (41%)
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