2017 | Domaines des Comtes Lafon | Meursault Goutte D’Or

Description

White Wine: 2017 | Domaines des Comtes Lafon | Meursault Goutte D’Or

Bright, pale yellow-green. Complex nose melds tangerine, yellow peach and a touch of honey, lifted by minty high tones. At once sappy and plush, with its silky volume offset by sound acidity.

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Producer: Domaines des Comtes Lafon

Ratings: BH | 94JG | 93

Vintage: 2017

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Chardonnay

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Bright, pale yellow-green. Complex nose melds tangerine, yellow peach and a touch of honey, lifted by minty high tones. At once sappy and plush, with its silky volume offset by sound acidity.

Reviews:

• Burghound: Hints of spice and petrol add breadth to the ripe and mildly exotic aromas of white peach, mandarin orange and discreet wood influence. The bigger and richer medium weight plus flavors possess excellent mid-palate density while displaying excellent depth and drive on the focused and powerful finish. Impressive.

• John Gilman: The 2017 Goutte d’Or chez Lafon has to be the strongest vintage yet that I have tasted of this cuvée since the vines were replanted. The bouquet is pure, composed and absolutely classic, offering up scents of apple, pear, iodine, chalky soil elements, hazelnuts, spring flowers and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is refined, pure and full, with very good mid-palate depth, bright acids, lovely soil signature and a very long, very bouncy and vibrant finish. This has the race and grip that only the top domaines’ white wines show in this vintage.

Producer Information

Domaine des Comtes Lafon is a wine producer in Burgundy making some of the most lauded (and highly priced) white wines from Chardonnay in the region. It is located in Meursault in the Côte de Beaune subregion, but has vineyards in three other villages: Chassagne-Montrachet, Volnay and Monthélie. Comtes Lafon’s house and cellar were built in 1869 by the Boch family, but its reputation as a winery was most heavily influenced by Jules Lafon, who married Marie Boch in 1894. Lafon bought many of the significant premier cru plots in Meursault and Volnay, and in 1919, parcels in the grand cru Le Montrachet vineyard. Domaine des Comtes Lafon saw an extended period of sharecropping after Jules Lafon’s death and the future of the estate became uncertain. It was Jules’ grandson René Lafon who took an interest in the winery and fought to stop the division of the vineyards – a move that secured the future of the domaine. Despite René’s intervention, many of the lease agreements with the sharecroppers remained in place for decades. Comtes Lafon was making highly regarded whites in many vintages but without consistency. It wasn’t until René’s son, Dominique, facilitated the end of the sharecropping agreements in the late 1980s and early ’90s that Domaine des Comtes Lafon was able to reach its full potential. In 1995, it adopted organic practices and since 1998 has been entirely biodynamic. Comte Lafon’s stand-out wine is its single grand cru Montrachet, which has consistently been listed as one of the most expensive wines in the world. The domaine also has a range of premier cru white and red wines and while the whites have always been highly regarded, its red wines have gained new recognition for their quality in more recent vintages. In 1999 Comtes Lafon expanded into the Mâcon in southern Burgundy with a second label: Les Héritiers du Comtes Lafon.