1993 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Vendanges Sélectionnées

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  2/3/2022 - MartyL wrote: 91 Points

  Mature. Resolved tertiary aromas of tea leaves and earth and a faint cherry. On the palate there is still a bit of tannin detectable on the finish, but it’s smooth and serves to carry the finish a bit longer. Drink ‘em if you got ‘em.

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  1/22/2022 - Wine Canuck wrote: flawed

  Tasting with old (and one new) friends (Kitchener, Ontario): Second of two bottles purchased at auction. First bottle was DOA and this was pretty much the same. On popping the cork the wine smells strongly of vinegar, which is not something I often find despite people who sometimes say that old wine turns to vinegar. It pours light garnet with medium plus bricking. The nose is of decaying leaves, old furniture, VA, and the faintest hint of dried berries. The palate actually does show ever so slightly more life with bright medium plus acid and medium minus tannin and kisses of red berries. Given other positive notes I'll chalk this up to bad storage.

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  12/23/2020 - rjpbath Likes this wine: 88 Points

  My last note on this (not on CT) was in 2014, when I noted the acidity, but thought it was a decent to good food wine. This time round however it was 90% acidity and 10% fruit, and undrinkable, when opened and for an hour or so. I recorked the 85% full bottle and put in a closed cupboard overnight - and remarkably the wine is much more pleasant for that eccentric handling, showing distinct tertiary notes today (22 hours later) with muted acidity, tasty stewed strawberry taste (aka Volnay), and is a pretty good food wine. Conclusion: after 50 years of drinking Burgundy, from the modest to the great, I still don't understand its behaviour..... (and that most certainly applies to Lafarge's wines).

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  8/1/2017 - William Kelley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  The '93 Lafarge VS is drinking a point, and was simply mesmerizingly good - a vindication of buying and aging serious village wines, if any were needed. The detailed and vibrant bouquet is very red-fruity, with notes of fresh and dried griotte cherry, cocoa nib, orange rind and a touch of squab. On the palate the wine is supple and silky, with melted tannins and bright acidity: penetrating, pure and precise.

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  8/15/2011 - Captain Haddock wrote:

  Mixed fortunes with two bottles of this on the same night. One alive, floral, balanced, gorgeous, the other oxidised (signs of seepage inside capsule). A well-preserved bottle should be perfect now.

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