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| Community Tasting Notes (average 97.2 pts. and median of 98 pts. in 7 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by JJYoyo on 2/23/2024 & rated 95 points: Beautiful lemon meringue, fennel seed, touch of jalapeño, honey, apricot, and a posture-stiffening wallop of clamshell minerality at the end. Wore its 14% labeled abv with ease. Refined with a sneaky power to it. It was like all the things you like in other Chardonnay wines all put together here. Fully mature with a few years to go at peak before entering decline.
Score: 95. Relative to expectations: ++ (184 views) | | | Tasted by fcxj on 10/11/2023 & rated 98 points: Subtle gunflint and citrus aromatics. Viscous, intense palate, great length. Minerality and elegance. (496 views) | | | Tasted by drjb on 7/21/2022 & rated 96 points: Wine Dinner #191, Harvey's, Fortitude Valley. As a lead-in to a vertical de Vogue Musigny dinner this wine set the scene performing beautifully with a pale green-gold colour and a complex nose of yellow peach, fresh cut pears, lemon and limes, cashew nut and limestone. The palate is unctuous and mouth filling yet beautifully balanced with a fine acid and mineral cut and persistence that ensures true finesse. Delicious. (697 views) | | | Tasted by Margauxguy on 11/14/2015 & rated 98 points: Huge, rich, opulent, although tight despite those qualities, lemon, cream, white peach. Some hints of pear, apricot and jasmine, light spice It brought the montrachet smile (5226 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 9/9/2010: Domaine Lafon Cellar Visit and Tasting (Meursault): Barrel tasting at Domaine. Whites were racked just once. Slightly floral to start with some delicate fruit aromas and some noticeable oak. Fruit and spice really pick up power and concentration in middle and finish with faint traces of tropical fruit, leaving me with a great mouth-coating intensity. (7436 views) | | | Tasted by ricknat1 on 5/31/2010 & rated 98 points: From barrel: (98-100) (6914 views) |
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JancisRobinson.com (10/23/2018)
(Dom des Comtes Lafon, Grand Cru Montrachet White) Subscribe to see review text. | The World of Fine Wine, December 2012, Issue #38
(Montrachet, Lafon –) Login and sign up and see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, May/Jun 2012, Issue #39, Domaine des Comtes Lafon: Meursault’s and the Mâconnais’ Greatest Estate
(Montrachet- Domaine des Comtes Lafon) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, The 2009 White Burgundies (Aug 2011)
(Comtes Lafon Montrachet - Grand Cru White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Allen Meadows
Burghound, July 2011, Issue #43
(Domaine Comtes Lafon Montrachet Grand Cru White) Subscribe to see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Nov/Dec 2010, Issue #30, The Fine 2009 Burgundy Vintage- Rather Heterogeneous
(Montrachet- Domaine des Comtes Lafon) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (10/27/2010)
(Dom des Comtes Lafon, Grand Cru Montrachet White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, September/October 2010, IWC Issue #152
(Domaine des Comtes Lafon Montrachet) Subscribe to see review text. |
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Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBurgundy Les vins de Bourgogne (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne) (and in English)
Burgundy - The province of eastern France, famous for its red wines produced from Pinot Noir and its whites produced from Chardonnay. (Small of amounts of Gamay and Aligoté are still grown, although these have to be labeled differently.) The most famous part of the region is known as the Cote d'Or (the Golden Slope). It is divided into the Cote de Beaune, south of the town of Beaune (famous principally for its whites), and the Cote de Nuits, North of Beaune (home of the most famous reds). In addition, the Cote Chalonnaise and the Maconnais are important wine growing regions, although historically a clear level (or more) below the Cote d'Or. Also included by some are the regions of Chablis and Auxerrois, farther north.
Burgundy Report | Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne - na stejné téma od Heleny Baker
# 2013 Vintage Notes:
* "2013 is a vintage that 20 years ago would have been a disaster." - Will Lyons
* "low yields and highly variable reds, much better whites." - Bill Nanson
* "Virtually all wines were chaptalised, with a bit of sugar added before fermentation to increase the final alcohol level." - Jancis Robinson
# 2014 Vintage Notes:
"We have not had such splendid harvest weather for many years. This will ensure high quality (fragrant, classy and succulent are words already being used) across the board, up and down the hierarchy and well as consistently from south to north geographically apart from those vineyards ravaged by the hail at the end of June." - Clive Coates
# 2015 Vintage Notes:
"Low yields and warm weather allowed for ample ripeness, small berries and an early harvest. Quality is looking extremely fine, with some people whispering comparisons with the outstanding 2005 vintage. Acid levels in individual wines may be crucial." - Jancis Robinson
# 2017 Vintage Notes:
"Chablis suffered greatly from frost in 2017, resulting in very reduced volumes. As ever, the irony seems to be that what remains is very good quality, as it is in the Côte d’Or. Cooler nights across the region have resulted in higher-than-usual acidity, with good conditions throughout the harvest season allowing for ripe, healthy fruit." - Jancis Robinson
# 2018 Vintage Notes:
"The most successful region for red Burgundy in 2018 was the Côte de Beaune. The weather was ideal in this area, with just enough sunlight and rain to produce perfectly balanced wines naturally." - Vinfolio
Côte de Beaune
Côte de Beaune (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne)
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