November 15, 2023 - Oxidative and past its prime, but not completely over the hill, this Lafon offers deep lemon, butterscotch, and nutty flavors. A fun wine to analyze and geek out on. Best search the corners of your cellar and make sure these aren’t hiding anywhere. Time to drink.
November 12, 2023 - Past its prime, but still fun to drink. At this point, the freshness has yielded to more oxidized fruit and nut notes. I mean, the color is closer to a young D Y’quem :) It’s a brilliant pairing for a cheese board, but I wouldn’t want it with oysters because it lacks the vibrancy at this age.
November 11, 2023 - Duck, duck, abortion!; 11/11/2023-11/17/2023: Dried oak on the nose with dried straw and topsoil. The fruit is there but a bit faded and hidden somewhere behind the straw.
Great honey and wet hay, with damp earth and white and yellow fruits (more on the darker spectrum). There is also a note of something like a walnut shell. Might want to drink these soon, don’t know if they will go for longer.
May 29, 2023 - Deep yellow/golden color. Very nutty aromas. Rich, textured, and still with very good ripe orchard fruit. Some sherried notes on the back end. I thought the wine was not overly oxidized and had some real interest, but others thought it was shot. I viewed the nuttiness as an accentuation of the nutty qualities that young Meursault can possess.
August 24, 2022 - Tasted double blind. I guessed this to be a roughly 20 year old Grand Cru which says a lot about the level of complexity the wine has today. The wine needed a bit of air to fully open up but then showed very layered with tertiary complexity wrapped around a still strong and fresh fruit core. One of the highlights certainly is the ever so slightly changing aroma profile. 95pts with some points deducted for a probably slightly too ripe and exotic fruit profile and probably a touch too low minerality to perfectly balance all the fruit.
TN: Intense, slightly exotic fruit compote on the nose, some hints of pineapple. Some slight oxidation notes which blow off completely with time. Some clean nutty notes emerge as well. Medium complex nose only but quite precise and intriguing. On the palate this shows better right from the go. More complex and with good precision the wine displays lots of fruit, orchard and exotic, white flowers, some minerality but not enough saltiness, some smoke notes, a few intruguing nutty notes and a beautiful pastry component. Good acidity cutting through the fruit, keeping it quite light. Medium length finish driven by fruit and acidity. Overall quite complete.
Decanting: Not decanted, needed only a few minutes to brighten and dust of some cellar stink. Followed over 1+ hours with little change afterwards.
August 19, 2022 - Part of a Chardonnay / Pinot Noir tasting. Second bottle in a short while. Caramel, a splash of mint, initially felt pretty oaky and even closed. But started adding floral accents, medicinal notes, quince fruit and overall showed a staggering evolution in the glass. Present acidity injects sufficient life and there is even still a bit of creaminess left on the texture. Should have gone for a 30min decant with hindsight. Even a better bottle than the previous one with easily 5-10 years of aging left.
August 7, 2022 - Uncompromisingly elegance with beautifully detailed and sweet dried apricot, fresh pear and bruised apple. A nutty touch and caramel highlight the aging and mature character. The palate has lost a bit of balance, but comes across tasty and creamy with just enough acidity to keep it all together.
March 11, 2020 - A beautiful reflection of vineyard, year and producer. Strong attack, good concentration and length with acidity all in proportion throughout. As a message in a bottle just glorious to drink. I should probably give it a higher score. And I just did - one of those cases where the whole is wonderfully better than the sum of the parts.
November 27, 2015 - Christmas dinner at Søllerød 2015 (Søllerød Kro): I have had countless bottles of premoxed and tired bottles of Lafon, but lo and behold, this 95 is fresh as a whistle (I actually guessed Puligny, albeit on a night where I got most wines wrong; the richness is here, but it is more minerals than butter that dominates, it is quite broad and complex with a vibrant acidity that keeps everything in place. Wonderful, mature white burg.
September 28, 2014 - The 1st bottle was premoxed as well as the 2nd before we gave up!