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Grand CruThe highest and most respected classification for a French vineyard
13.7% of All Fine Wine
Limited ProductionLess than 500 cases made per year. Good luck finding this at your local wine store.
7.5% of All Fine Wine
Top VintageBehold! One of the finest vintages of this wine ever made.
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18.6% of All Producers of Fine Wine
Top 5A top 5 wine in the region
17.0% of All Fine WineCritics Scores
Vinous
(five barrels, all new): Bright medium yellow. Totally different on the nose than the Perrières , offering vibrant aromas of white peach, mint, spices, iodine and crushed rock. Conveys compelling sweetness and spicy depth to its flavors of yellow and white stone fruits accented by mandarin orange zest. With its utterly seamless texture of liquid silk, this spectacular young Montrachet is almost too easy to taste today. (For his part, Lafon says it was more floral a month before my visit but deeper today.) Finishes thick and extremely long, with a repeating spice character and a reappearance of the mineral verve that was obvious on the nose.
John Gilman
I did not mean my introductory remarks to be construed as criticism for this vintage of Lafon Montrachet, as the wine is beautiful in 2017. But, it is not its customary step up from the Perrières this year, which may be more a reflection of just how brilliant the Perrières has turned out in 2017, rather than commentary on the Montrachet. In any case, the bouquet here is stellar, wafting from the glass in a refined blend of apple pear, fresh almond, complex, chalky soil tones, a touch of iodine, white flowers and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and very refined structurally, with a good core, fine focus and grip, bright acids and a long, elegant and complex finish. A lovely, lovely wine, but given all the fireworks at the premier cru level this year in the Lafon cellars, I was hoping for just a tiny bit more with the Monty. (Drink between 2025-2065)
Decanter
After a near wipeout in 2016 leading to it being sold as part of a 500-bottle blend with six other producers, this superlative grand cru is back with intent in 2017. The 0.32ha holding has produced five barrels of rich, complex and hauntingly balanced wine. It's textured, layered and powerful, yet ultimately long and refreshing. Drinking Window 2022 - 2032.
Burghound.com
As good as the Perrières is, and it's exceptionally good, this offers another step up with its deft touch of wood framing the highly restrained but even more complex nose of mildly exotic aromas of passion fruit, apple, lemon-lime, pear, white flowers and discreet spice elements. The sleek, focused and almost painfully intense imposingly-scaled flavors brim with an abundance of mouth coating dry extract that also buffers the very firm acid spine shaping the hugely long finish that evidences focused power and plenty of minerality. This is a dramatic wine that is going to require all of 15 years to arrive at its peak and 20 would not surprise me much.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Montrachet Grand Cru is a classic in the making, wafting from the glass with aromas of lemon oil, citrus blossom, green apple, mandarin and beeswax, subtly framed by new oak. On the palate, it's full-bodied, beautifully complete and multidimensional, with a broad, satiny attack, a deep, layered mid-palate and a pure, penetrating finish. Youthfully reserved today, its almost understated elegance conceals impressive reserved of structure and extract. The 2017 vintage is an excellent year for Domaine des Comtes Lafon, where Dominique Lafon and his team seem to have attained a new level of consistency since the 2009 vintage. After the better part of two decades' experimentation and refinement, Lafon has found a mature aesthetic. What's more, he has devoted considerable attention to the question of premature oxidation, and today monitors dissolved oxygen levels at racking and bottling closely. Since the 2013 vintage, all the domaine's wines have also been bottled under Diam technical corks, and free sulfur levels and bottling practices have been adjusted accordingly. The result is wines that now realize much more reliably the quality they show in barrel. Satiny and succulent, these are some of the most charming wines in Meursault, beautifully defined by their respective climats. And 2017 is a fine vintage in red at this address, featuring for the first time a Volnay Champans derived almost exclusively from the domaine's 1921 plantings in this serious premier cru.
Burghound
As good as the Perrières is, and it's exceptionally good, this offers another step up with its deft touch of wood framing the highly restrained but even more complex nose of mildly exotic aromas of passion fruit, apple, lemon-lime, pear, white flowers and discreet spice elements. The sleek, focused and almost painfully intense imposingly-scaled flavors brim with an abundance of mouth coating dry extract that also buffers the very firm acid spine shaping the hugely long finish that evidences focused power and plenty of minerality. This is a dramatic wine that is going to require all of 15 years to arrive at its peak and 20 would not surprise me much.