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2017 Volnay, Dominique Lafon, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready, but will improve
Product: 20178020864
2017 Volnay, Dominique Lafon, Burgundy

Description

This is from the lower part of Lurets, which is classified as village-level, and is always the last vineyard to be picked, as the fruit ripens late. It has a classic Volnay nose of pretty red fruit and flowers, while the palate has juicy strawberry fruit and crunchy, powdery tannins. Elegant and pretty. Drink 2020-2024.

After the famine of 2016, this year is something of a feast, at least in the case of the reds. Sadly, the whites, which Dominique praises as having excellent clarity, are in slightly smaller volumes than 2016. The good news is that the full range of red wines has been made, and in good volume too. Dominique is effusive in his praise for the 2017 reds, describing them as appealing, with beautiful balance, a lightness of touch, refined tannins and a floral character with stunning red fruit.

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2017
Alcohol % 13
Maturity Ready, but will improve
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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