2018 Beaune, Les Grèves, 1er Cru, Dominique Lafon, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
For laying down
Product: 20188020822
2018 Beaune, Les Grèves, 1er Cru, Dominique Lafon, Burgundy

Description

The price of the 75cl bottle includes a 20% promotional discount, reduced from £68 previously. This exclusive offer does not apply to BBX listings.

Dominique rents this from the same owner as Vignes Franches, and the vines are also 60 years old. Arguably Beaune’s best vineyard, this has an extra layer of dark, meaty richness alongside the usual bright, floral notes.

Drink 2024 - 2031

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
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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