2020 Mâcon-Prissé, Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon, Burgundy

2020 Mâcon-Prissé, Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon, Burgundy

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2020 Mâcon-Prissé, Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon, Burgundy

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Description

This wasn’t produced in 2019 due to frost; the surviving grapes were declassified to Mâcon-Villages. There was no lasting damage, and it’s a real success in ’20. This spot ripens early, so the grapes are picked at the start of harvest. Made in oak foudre, this is fruity and charming with crisp peach fruit and a zesty finish. Drink 2022-2026.

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Neal Martin, Vinous88/100
Back after being frosted over last year, the 2020 Mâcon-Prissé has a fresh citrus scented nose with just a touch of chamomile. The palate is well balanced and quite primal with tropical notes of passion fruit and guava towards the finish. Enjoy over the next three to six years. Closure: Diam.

Neal Martin, Vinous (December 2021) Read more
Decanter92/100

Open, accessible aromas of ripe apple and flowers. The texture is rich and broad, yet there is enough acidity here to keep everything in balance. Lafon owns 0.88ha in the lieu-dit La Verchère, next to St-Véran. The grapes were fermented exclusively in large oak foudres.

Drink 2022 - 2035

Charles Curtis MW, Decanter.com (Oct 2021) Read more

About this WINE

Heritiers du Comte Lafon

Heritiers du Comte Lafon

Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon was established in 1999 when the famed Lafon family of Meursault purchased a small domaine in Milly-Lamartine.

Their enthusiasm for the project has grown ever since, as has the domaine: today it covers 26 hectares in the most prestigious appellations of the Mâconnais, all farmed biodynamically.

The estate is overseen by the energetic Caroline Gon, in close consultation with Dominique Lafon. The 2020 vintage sees the increased involvement of Dominique’s daughter Léa and nephew Pierre, both taking a keen interest in the Mâconnais project.

Caroline continues to run the estate on a day-to-day basis, putting Dominique’s vision into practice.

In the winery
Vinification and ageing continue to move towards larger oak formats, with increased use of foudres and demi-muids. The team recognise the profile of Mâcon wines as being more generous and fruitier than those of the Côte d’Or. So their aim is to retain as much freshness as possible, and not to impart too much oak character.

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The Maconnais

The Maconnais

The Mâconnais is currently perhaps Burgundy’s most dynamic region. In the past only Pouilly-Fuissé – source of rich and ripe white wines – stood out from the crowd, but not only are such satellite appellations as Pouilly-Vinzelles and the newly-created (ie in 1998) Viré-Clessé coming alive, but a new generation of growers are also now producing some excellent Mâcon Villages.

These wines used to be cheap and simple, rarely lasting more than a year or two after the vintage, but now one or two growers in each village are making proper, oak-aged, complex and reasonably-concentrated wines which will develop well in bottle.

  • 53 hectares of AC Mâcon (70 percent white)
  • 406 hectares of AC Mâcon Superieur (75 percent red).
  • 1,840 hectares of AC Mâcon Villages. Best individual villages include La Roche Vineuse, Lugny, Milly-Lamartine, Chardonnay, Uchizy.
  • 291 hectares of AC St Véran. Recommended producers include Domaine des Deux Roches, Olivier Merlin.
  • 47 hectares of AC Pouilly Vinzelles and 31 hectares of AC Pouilly Loché. Recommended producers include Bret Bros, Domaine de la Soufrandiere.
  • 211 hectares of AC Viré Clessé. Recommended producers include Bret Bros, Domaine Ste Barbe,
  • 764 hectares of AC Pouilly Fuissé. Recommended producers include Ch de Fuisse, Ch des Rontets, Bret Bros, Olivier Merlin, Cordier.
  • Recommended Restaurant : La Table de Chaintré (Chaintré)

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Chardonnay

Chardonnay

Chardonnay is often seen as the king of white wine grapes and one of the most widely planted in the world It is suited to a wide variety of soils, though it excels in soils with a high limestone content as found in Champagne, Chablis, and the Côte D`Or.

Burgundy is Chardonnay's spiritual home and the best White Burgundies are dry, rich, honeyed wines with marvellous poise, elegance and balance. They are unquestionably the finest dry white wines in the world. Chardonnay plays a crucial role in the Champagne blend, providing structure and finesse, and is the sole grape in Blanc de Blancs.

It is quantitatively important in California and Australia, is widely planted in Chile and South Africa, and is the second most widely planted grape in New Zealand. In warm climates Chardonnay has a tendency to develop very high sugar levels during the final stages of ripening and this can occur at the expense of acidity. Late picking is a common problem and can result in blowsy and flabby wines that lack structure and definition.

Recently in the New World, we have seen a move towards more elegant, better- balanced and less oak-driven Chardonnays, and this is to be welcomed.

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