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2015 Beaune, Les Grèves, 1er Cru, Dominique Lafon, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
For laying down
Product: 20158020822
2015 Beaune, Les Grèves, 1er Cru, Dominique Lafon, Burgundy

Description

This is a very elegant style of Grèves, from three plots, higher, lower and mid-slope. A fine, bright pink-purple in colour, this is beautifully perfumed, yet with a great crunch of fruit in the middle. In typical Lafon fashion a seemingly agreeable wine takes on another dimension by the finish. Drink 2021-2028.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer

The whites were picked from 28th August with a good crop for the Bourgogne Blanc, rather less in the other white vineyards. The reds – more wine than in 2014 or 2016 but far from a full crop – are superb, having been vinified with very light extraction, given the health and beauty of the raw material. While all the whites count as domaine wines, there are now two excellent cuvées of Premier Cru Beaune from purchased grapes to go alongside the domaine-owned Beaune Épenottes and the two Volnays.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2015
Alcohol % 13
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Dominique Lafon

About this wine

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.
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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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