Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
Pretty pink purple, with a lightly reductive nose. Lively red fruit, clean fresh raspberry notes with a bit more stuffing behind. A Monthelie with finesse and notable persistence. It may be the ‘entry level’ Lafon red, but it would not be easy to find a finer Monthelie.
Barrel Sample: 90-93 -
Decanter
Lafon has more than 1ha on the prime, east-facing slopes overlooking Meursault in Monthelie Les Duresses. The fruit is destemmed and fermented slowly, with punching down daily, before ageing in cask to produce this elegant wine, with a lovely, ripe cherry fruit, fresh, ethereal texture and a lingering finish. Drinking Window: 2024 - 2039.
Barrel Sample: 92
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
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