1999 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Vendanges Sélectionnées

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  1/28/2023 - CHINACAT wrote: 87 Points

  Waited a little too long to drink my last bottle. This one was a bit cloudy and muddy and thin and acidic. Still had some fruit, but was well past its peak.

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  10/21/2019 - DaleW wrote:

  wow, 20 year old village wine and it's still a bit tannic, acidic, and shutdown. But with time it begins to unfold, black cherries and a bit of mocha, some mushroom, real acidic backbone. No hurry here B+

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  6/25/2019 - liber Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Chez G in Cornwall, pnp, perfect cork and level - dark, quite dense, ruby, some development; tending to redcurrant, earth, quite mineral, hefty and not particularly nuanced; med/full, long but less persistent, attractive quite sweet mid palate, gritty tannins covered by attractive if as yet simple fruit, more beef than transparency, mature but no rush. VGI (17).

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  9/29/2018 - CHINACAT wrote: 92 Points

  A bit more open and complex than the bottle I had last year. Plenty of fruit, some earthiness and minerality, and ample acidity. No signs of fading and plenty of remaining structure. Should hold up for a while longer.

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  7/22/2018 - coremill wrote:

  When I had this five years ago, I said it was angry and shutdown and to try again in 5-10 years. Well now it's five years later, and the structure has indeed softened and relaxed such that you can actually get some pleasure out of drinking this. This is a very ripe vintage of this wine, all black-fruited (as 99s tend to be) and still quite primary, but because it's Lafarge the ripe black fruit is cool and airy. The tannins here are still a bit gritty and I think this needs several more years to reach peak drinking. At this point it is actually a little Barolo-esque.

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