November 2, 2023 - Perfect color. Started off strong with a deep and gorgeous nose. Palate seemed like it needed stretching since it seemed slightly tired. I gave it time to unwind in the bottle and… it became oxed. Big RIP
February 26, 2023 - A great Lafon Perrries with salted butter, sweet spice, perfume, dried tropical extract, caramelized yellow fruit and almond. It is rich and layered with fresh acidity, which give the wine a good balance between freshness and ripeness. Drinking at peak with that alluring Lafon richness.
February 18, 2023 - we dronk it blind against a coche perrieres 2009, comtes lafon , the nose was clean and sharp, even young, some apples and almonds very beautiful acidity , it is still young , but i missed some fatness from the chardonnay , it was rather a cold wine, but still a great bottle, if the coche was not their , we probably talked all night about this bottle :)
September 27, 2020 - Very fresh indeed, citrus galore, minerals, almost Chablis-like in it's precision, airy, elegant, a real surprise when revealed - when the wine get's warmer, the origins and age seems more evident.
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October 20, 2018 - Very pale. Light and subdued. Barely recognizable as Meursault. Seems almost young it’s so clean. Pleasant enough but seriously missing mid palate concentration. Previous bottles from the same source have been better.
September 30, 2017 - Dinner at Summer Pavilion (Summer Pavilion, Ritz Carlton, Singapore): Wow. This was a step-up from the already great bottle of 2002 Lafon Charmes that we had alongside. It had such an expansive bouquet, filling the nose was wafts of cream and chalk and minerals, then white fruit and sweeter sultanas, white flowers with touch of honey, finally a draw of hazelnut aromas - a real whiff of heavenly nectar. Wow. It was amazing on the palate too, starting with an attack of sultanas, spice and brioche - flavours like a raisin-cream bun I thought - and then opening up into warm, generous flavours of white peaches and ripe lemon that just expanded and expanded in the mouth against a deeply buried structure of mineral and soft acidity. This was a wonderfully integrated wine, beautifully round and mellow, broad and generous, yet suavely balanced and always supremely focused. Great long finish too - not showy, but with a subtle tail of stony minerality that lingered and lingered on the back palate. A superb expression of the Perrieres vineyard, drinking at a delicious peak now.
August 11, 2017 - Once again this wine impresses from the gentle vintage 2000. The yeasty, leesy nose is typical of Lafon although this wine has been much more wild in the past. This bottle not at all funky despite the medium gold color. Medium intensity, very nice although it too faded in the glass so better to drink sooner rather than later.
April 27, 2017 - to jkf
January 21, 2017 - Another tremendous showing for this gorgeous Meursault. I have been lucky since none of my bottles have exhibited even a trace of oxidation. This one was slightly less animale than the first one but more elegant. Lots of leesy oatmeal notes, medium body, excellent acidity, perfect stage of development. If only it would stay like this forever.
December 3, 2016 - Very nice mature Meursault but more linear and without the mildly exotic truffle overtones of previous bottles. Still, very fresh, hint of grilled nuts and stylish.