Community Tasting Notes 8

• shifter wrote: 94 points

  May 1, 2024 - DIAM 30. Double decanted 2 hours before serving. Wide open and drinking wonderfully. Beautiful fruit profile with a nice acid backbone. Shows the lovely, softness of the vintage. Just your typical sexy Lafon...

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• sid_loves_wine Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 25, 2024 - All of these notes are based on a glass and half, sipped very slowly and shared by a generous friend after about 18 hours open (and re-corked in fridge.) Don't pay much attention to my "score" here- as with my recent experience with Mugneret-Gibourg, this price point isn't something I engage with often in wine, and so I can't easily compare it to similarly-valued offerings (especially with the secondary market at play); what's more, even just considering the amazing quality of the wine alone, it DEFINITELY needs at least a few more years to blossom, in my opinion, to be worth the price of admission.
  
  Long story short, though: wow! This is gorgeous and extremely nuanced, balancing latent power and intriguing complexity. The only real issue I had with the wine was that it was surprisingly shy on the nose, feeling very tightly-wound (even after nearly a full day open). I still got plenty of VIVID flinty minerality, really that super hardcore gunflint, buttressing a core of lemon zest, some almond, and white floral shades. I loved that it was powerful without resorting to that softer kind of "orchard fruit" I've experienced in some white Burgundies, that almost champagne-adjacent apple tone; this was all precise, flinty, uber-fresh and svelte. The palate definitely had more sense of "weight" and perhaps ripeness than the nose let on; a beautiful creamy texture with more lemon curd, some faint vanilla, and a long, extremely almond-rich finish that was my favorite part by far (I LOVE that almond tone in good chard, my favorite note I get sometimes.) It reminded me of young Kistler quite a bit, just a little less "powdery" and a little more "flinty" if that makes sense!
  
  I want to rate this higher, for the quality. I've definitely had several bottles of Chard that felt VERY similar, at least 80% of the quality (sometimes even more) for about 1/4 the average price. That said, this will be monstrously good with another 5, even ten years on it, once it continues to unfurl its minerally armor. I'm extremely excited to potentially try more of their wines someday.

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• zorglub123 wrote: 95 points

  February 14, 2024 - Au premier nez, il apparait comme minéral et fruité, et l’agitation renforce les notes de fruits. Belle aisance en bouche, le vin se goûte vraiment très bien en exprimant une race indéniable, un caractère particulier issu de ce climat des Porusots. Très long final avec beaucoup de tension, et une capacité à vieillir pendant presque deux décennies à coup sûr.

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• BradE wrote:

  October 26, 2023 - Lafon does great things with this vineyard and the 2019 is another terrific wine.

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• chablis28 wrote: 95 points

  October 25, 2023 - Heidi's Redux at local fav STG. CV, BE,KB,DD,LI & JG. What a night! Brad brought an amazing horizontal of four standout 2019 Comtes Lafon Meursault 1ers He only listed 3 and w/o first seeking approval added a 4th. We love rule breakers! What can I say about Lafon? Well, it's become my hands down favorite white Burg producer, for my palate. I love it for its ethereal nature and top-notch fruit. Brad calls Lafon "class in the glass". I couldn't agree more. Tonight's Porusots was true to Lafon but with a little more power than the rest. Still though nothing over the top. Look, I could be happy drinking any of these as they all are as close to perfect as chardonnay gets for me. Dam, I'd be happy to revist any of these if opportunity presents itself. A stellar lineup! Did I mention lafon is my fav white Burg producer? :).

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2019
• Type White
• Producer Domaine des Comtes Lafon
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Porusots
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Beaune
• Appellation Meursault 1er Cru

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• Pending Delivery 20 (3%)
• In Cellars 653 (91%)
• Consumed 43 (6%)

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