Heritiers du Comte Lafon
Prices:
Will Heslop - Wine Buyer
Bottle
£16.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl9cs
Bottle
£21.50
Bottle 12 x 75cl99cs
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer
It was a rush to get everything in on time in the Mâcon vineyards but the team managed it. All the wines now show a light touch of deliberate reduction on first opening, part of the fresh, anti-oxidative regime.
Bottle
£23.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl12cs
The 2014 wines were all bottled just before the 2015 harvest using Diam10 corks, and the crus – such as Viré-Clessé – have a slightly different label (effectively the same as those for the other Mâconnais wines but with the colours inverted). Dominique thinks that 2014 is not only an excellent vintage, but also remarkably consistent for every part of the Mâconnais. The entire range is a joy this year.
Bottle
£23.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl8cs
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer
Dominique Lafon and his cellar master, Caroline Gon, took a great deal of trouble in 2015 to get their picking dates exactly right. They started on 28th August and picked their Mâconnais wines across a 13-day period, as each sector ripened, with the result that they have avoided high sugar levels and have kept the desired element of freshness in their wines.
Bottle
£23.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl49cs
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer
Dominique Lafon and his cellar master, Caroline Gon, took a great deal of trouble in 2015 to get their picking dates exactly right. They started on 28th August and picked their Mâconnais wines across a 13-day period, as each sector ripened, with the result that they have avoided high sugar levels and have kept the desired element of freshness in their wines.
Bottle
£23.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl10cs
Bottle 12 x 75cl2cs
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer
It was a rush to get everything in on time in the Mâcon vineyards but the team managed it. All the wines now show a light touch of deliberate reduction on first opening, part of the fresh, anti-oxidative regime.
Bottle
£25.00
Bottle 12 x 75cl3cs
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director
Both 2012 and 2013 have proved to be half-sized crops for Dominique Lafon’s Mâconnais domaine, nonetheless, 2012 was a very fine vintage here, and all wines were bottled just before the harvest, using DIAM corks.
Bottle
£27.50
Bottle 12 x 75cl24cs
Bottle 12 x 75cl1cs
Will Heslop - Wine Buyer
Bottle
£27.50
Bottle 12 x 75cl70cs
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer
Dominique Lafon and his cellar master, Caroline Gon, took a great deal of trouble in 2015 to get their picking dates exactly right. They started on 28th August and picked their Mâconnais wines across a 13-day period, as each sector ripened, with the result that they have avoided high sugar levels and have kept the desired element of freshness in their wines.
Bottle
£27.50
Bottle 12 x 75cl30cs
Bottle 12 x 75cl1cs
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer
It was a rush to get everything in on time in the Mâcon vineyards but the team managed it. All the wines now show a light touch of deliberate reduction on first opening, part of the fresh, anti-oxidative regime.
Bottle 12 x 75cl1cs
The 2014 wines were all bottled just before the 2015 harvest using Diam10 corks, and the crus – such as Viré-Clessé – have a slightly different label (effectively the same as those for the other Mâconnais wines but with the colours inverted). Dominique thinks that 2014 is not only an excellent vintage, but also remarkably consistent for every part of the Mâconnais. The entire range is a joy this year.
Bottle 12 x 75cl1cs
Bottle 12 x 75cl1cs
Bottle 12 x 75cl1cs
In September 1999 the Lafon family of Meursault bought a domaine in the wine region of Maconnais at Milly Lamartine, renaming it Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon.
In May 2003 a further domaine of 6 hectares in the villages of Uchizy and Chardonnay was bought. Together the Mâcon domaine amounted to 14 hectares producing seven wines in all, four of them from single-vineyard sites. The most recent addition, from 2009, is a contract to farm the vineyards of the Château de Viré, with the appellation Viré-Clessé.
The whole operation, based at Milly, is now looked after by Caroline Gon under the supervision of Dominique Lafon. The vineyards were immediately converted to organic and now to biodynamic farming. The wines are vinified partly in stainless steel, partly in large wooden foudres (ovals) and partly in demi-muids - barrels of 600 litres, depending on the cuvée.
Jasper Morris MW is author of the award-winning Inside Burgundy comprehensive handbook.