2023 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Volnay
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Decanter
Reviewed January 2025This lovely Volnay has a secret – it is produced from grapes in Meursault. Lafon is the largest landowner in Volnay Santenots, and this wine is from the young vines of that vineyard. The wine offers a fresh raspberry and plum fruit character with hints of lavender and spice. The texture is supple and approachable; there is less intensity than in the Santenots, but one finds a youthful vigour and charm instead. The grapes here are destemmed and gently fermented before ageing in cask, one-third new.(CC)
Professional Reviews
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Burghound
Note: from young vines in Santenots. A more suffused nose speaks of ripe fruit that derives more from the red side of the spectrum while displaying notes of exotic tea and a touch of newly turned earth. The racy, detailed and refined medium weight flavors possess a lovely texture, if only average density, before terminating in a dusty, moderately austere and balanced finale. This robust effort will require at least a few years of keeping before it will be ready for prime time.*Burghound Outstanding!*
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John Gilman
This was the one red wine chez Lafon that was still out of sorts from its very recent racking, but seemed to have good constituent components to it and the fruit tones are again, quite red fruity. The nose is deep and nicely pure, delivering a mix of red plums, cherries, lovely spice tones, dark soil elements, gamebird, violets and a touch of oak. On the palate the wine is agitated from its racking, but has good depth, full body, lovely complexity and is probably very well balanced, with fairly moderate tannins. I am sure this will be very good indeed, but it is too grumpy today to attempt to score it precisely. (Drink between 2030-2070)
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Jasper Morris
An even red purple colour. An elegant pure red fruit on the nose, with a serene red berry fruit across the palate, fine tannins, adequate acidity, will surely make a lovely bottle. Drink from 2028-2031. Tasted Oct 2024.
Details
| Type | Red Wine |
|---|---|
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Origin | Volnay, Burgundy, France |
| Bottle Size | 750 mL |
| SKU | 2008915 |
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