2020 | Dominique Lafon | Les Lurets

Dense rich ripe fruit, super-sensual with rich raspberry fruit and a thick texture. There is excellent intensity, and some persistence, with the tannins as they should be. A little riper than ideal, though. and length. behind.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Aromas of dark berries, rich spices, loamy soil and rose petals preface the 2020 Volnay 1er Cru Les Lurets, a medium to full-bodied, deep and nicely concentrated wine built around chalky tannins and tangy acids. It's turning out very nicely.

• Burghound: This too is very firmly reduced. The more refined and slightly denser flavors possess a more sophisticated texture with notably better depth and persistence on the balanced if chalky and slightly austere finale. In contrast to the prior wines, this is sufficiently tightly wound to need at least 7 to 8 years of bottle aging and a wine that should easily reward 10 to 12. One to look for.

Producer Information

Dominique Lafon needs no introduction to lovers of fine Burgundy. Having started his career working for a well-known pioneering agent in Beaune back in the very early 1980s he then proceeded to take over his family estate, Domaine des Comtes Lafon in 1984. In 1987 he began the project of taking back all of the estate’s vineyards that were being farmed by métayers or sharecroppers. Within a few short years, his wines were some of the most prized in Burgundy and the rest is history. In 2008 he started his own label made up of vineyards, both owned and rented, in Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet & Beaune. He prefers the tension and mineral qualities of grapes from upper hillside slopes and his wines reflect this preference. All vineyards are farmed biodynamically by the Comtes Lafon team and Dominique does most of the cellar work himself. This is a labor of love and a return to his roots, when he was just one of a small team of workers on the family estate. Though legally a négociant, this is only because he makes his wine at the Château de Bligny-Lès-Beaune, a custom crush operation that he runs with a friend. He controls all of the farming.

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