2009 | Domaine des Comtes Lafon | Meursault Goutte D’Or Online

2009 | Domaine des Comtes Lafon | Meursault Goutte D’Or

White Wine: 2009 | Domaine des Comtes Lafon | Meursault Goutte D’Or

An overtly ripe nose speaks of hazelnut, white peach, pear and soft spice notes

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Producer: Domaine des Comtes Lafon

Ratings: WA | 91  AM | 92

Vintage: 2009

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Chardonnay

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Detailed Description

An overtly ripe nose speaks of hazelnut, white peach, pear and soft spice notes.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2009 Meursault Goutte d’Or is clean, precise and beautifully focused. It shows lovely mid-palate pliancy in a slightly rounder, softer style than the Clos de la Barre. Ripe pears and white flowers linger on the energetic, saline finish.

• Allen Meadows: An overtly ripe nose speaks of hazelnut, white peach, pear and soft spice notes that merge seamlessly into rich, full-bodied and broad-scaled flavors that brim with an abundance of extract that confers a textured mouth feel onto the intense, powerful and muscular finish.

Producer Information

Domaine des Comtes Lafon is a wine producer in Burgundy making some of the most lauded (and highly priced) white wines from Chardonnay in the region. It is located in Meursault in the Côte de Beaune subregion, but has vineyards in three other villages: Chassagne-Montrachet, Volnay and Monthélie. Comtes Lafon’s house and cellar were built in 1869 by the Boch family, but its reputation as a winery was most heavily influenced by Jules Lafon, who married Marie Boch in 1894. Lafon bought many of the significant premier cru plots in Meursault and Volnay, and in 1919, parcels in the grand cru Le Montrachet vineyard. Domaine des Comtes Lafon saw an extended period of sharecropping after Jules Lafon’s death and the future of the estate became uncertain. It was Jules’ grandson René Lafon who took an interest in the winery and fought to stop the division of the vineyards – a move that secured the future of the domaine. Despite René’s intervention, many of the lease agreements with the sharecroppers remained in place for decades. Comtes Lafon was making highly regarded whites in many vintages but without consistency. It wasn’t until René’s son, Dominique, facilitated the end of the sharecropping agreements in the late 1980s and early ’90s that Domaine des Comtes Lafon was able to reach its full potential. In 1995, it adopted organic practices and since 1998 has been entirely biodynamic.