2020 Volnay, Les Lurets, 1er Cru, Dominique Lafon, Burgundy

2020 Volnay, Les Lurets, 1er Cru, Dominique Lafon, Burgundy

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2020 Volnay, Les Lurets, 1er Cru, Dominique Lafon, Burgundy

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Description

Dominique has one block of vines here in the higher – Premier Cru – section of Lurets. The wine has a wonderfully pretty, lifted rose-petal and red-berry nose. It’s more generous on the palate than Dominique’s village cuvée. There is a rich, sweet ball of red fruit, wrapped in a cloak of velour tannins. This is wonderful.

Drink 2028 - 2043

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Critics reviews

Jasper Morris MW88-91/100

5 barrels made. 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. At 14% it is a little riper than ideal, though. and length. behind.

Jasper Morris MW, InsideBurgundy.com (January 2022)

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Burghound91-93/100

This too is very firmly reduced. The more refined and slightly denser flavours 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 ageing and a wine that should easily reward 10 to 12. One to look for.

Drink from 2030 onward

Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (April 2022)

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Wine Advocate91-93/100

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.

William Kelley, Wine Advocate (January 2022)

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About this WINE

Dominique Lafon

Dominique Lafon

Dominique’s decision, in 2008, to start this parallel project – separate from Domaine des Comtes Lafon – was already an interesting proposition. Now, with his daughter Léa and nephew Pierre beginning to take bigger roles at the family domaine, Dominique may have a little more time to spend on these already splendid wines.

Officially, this is a négociant business, but all the fruit comes from vineyards that Dominique either owns or has the contract to farm.

In the winery
The cellars are rented in the old château in Bligny-lès-Beaune but the same team is used to harvest the fruit for these wines and the Comtes Lafon estate. The winemaking is just the same as well, although the élevage is shorter.

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Volnay

Volnay

The finest and most elegant red wines of the Côte de Beaune are grown in Volnay, a village which might be twinned with Chambolle- Musigny in the Côte de Nuits, for the high active chalk content in the soil and comparatively low clay content.

Whereas in earlier times Volnay was made in a particularly light, early drinking style, these days there are many producers making wines which age extremely well. The best vineyards run either side of the RN73 trunk road.
  • 98 hectares of village Volnay
  • 115 hectares of Premier Cru vineyards (35 in all). The finest include Les Taillepieds, Clos des Chênes, Champans, Caillerets (including Clos des 60 Ouvrées) and Santenots in Meursault.
  • Recommended producers:  LafargeLafonde Montille

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Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or.

Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.

Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.

The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.

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