The warm summer has brought out a lovely Muscat-y character in this wine. It is juicy, peachy, heady, generous and gorgeous, yet with an excellent lime-like intensity at the back. Drink 2017-2020.
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.

Curiously, this cuvée always has the lowest acidity by analysis but not to the taste. The 2014 is very pale. On the palate, there’s a little touch of greengage: it’s medium bodied, with all its usual elegance and minerality.

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.