2005 | Comtes Lafon | Meursault Perrieres

White Wine: 2005 | Comtes Lafon | Meursault Perrieres

Explosively ripe fruit aromas of apricot and pineapple currently dominate underlying minerality on the nose.

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Producer: Comtes Lafon

Ratings: V | 90

Vintage: 2005

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Chardonnay

Country/Region: France, Meursault Charmes

Explosively ripe fruit aromas of apricot and pineapple currently dominate underlying minerality on the nose.

Reviews:

• Vinous: Healthy bright, light yellow. Very ripe but reticent aromas of oatmeal, baking spices and spice oils. Concentrated, silky and seamless in the mouth, with plush yellow fruit flavors giving the wine a fat, sweet impression. Atypically rich and weighty for a Lafon Meursault, showing limited mineral lift and site distinction.

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 Cte de Beaune subregion, but has vineyards in three other villages: Chassagne-Montrachet, Volnay and Monthlie. 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 Ren 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 Ren'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.