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2017 Domaine des Comtes Lafon, Volnay Premier Cru, Les Santenots du Milieu
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Start Your Wine Collection with 2017 Domaine des Comtes Lafon, Volnay Premier Cru, Les Santenots du Milieu
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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.
61.1% of Vinovest Wines
Family-OwnedFamily-owned wineries deliver a personal winemaking touch that corporations cannot
18.6% of All Producers of Fine WineCritics Scores
Decanter
The domaine's holdings of Santenots are sizeable at 3.9ha, although the younger vines are used to make Dominique Lafon's village Volnay. This richer, denser, sappier wine has subtle reduction with some spice and texture from 10 whole bunches, accompanied by filigree tannins and a core of plum and dark cherry fruit. Drinking Window 2024 - 2032.
Vinous
The 2017 Volnay Les Santenots-du-Milieu 1er Cru has a complex bouquet with a mixture of red and black fruit, a touch of whole cluster from an additional vat lending a little pepperiness. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannins on the entry and a little compact at the moment. The elegant, transparent finish has a skip in its step. Divine.
Burghound.com
A very pungent nose speaks only of reduction and wood. Otherwise the succulent but more voluminous middle weight plus flavors exude a subtle minerality before concluding in solidly powerful, strikingly complex and impressively persistent finish. At the risk of repeating myself, this is not going to wow you with its concentration but it will with its depth and overall sense of harmony and balance.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots-du-Milieu confirms its strong showing from barrel, soaring from the glass with scents of ripe cherries, red berries, rose petals, orange rind and a deft touch of toasty new oak. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, ample and fleshy, with melting tannins, succulent acids and a charming, supple profile that makes it hard to resist. In retrospect, it was unkind of me to schedule a series of tastings in Meursault the day after the village's famous Paulée, but Dominique Lafon and his daughter Lea—who returned full time to the domaine beginning with the 2019 vintage—were on fine form for our afternoon appointment. The crop was generous here as elsewhere along the Côte de Beaune, though Lafon says yields were lower than in 1982, and harvest began early, on August 24. Supple, succulent but incisive, this is a fine portfolio, and when I asked Dominique if he preferred 2017 or 2018, he was initially taken aback. "No one has asked me that, and it's not as self-evident as I would have assumed," he replied. Certainly, Lafon's 2017s are more muscular and concentrated; but that concentration lends some of the wines—most notably the Perrières—an aromatic, almost exotically musky quality, whereas at this early stage, the 2018s are beautifully classic on the nose. And the comparisons were made side by side, as we revisited several 2017s from bottle during our tasting. What is clear, in any case, is that 2017 and 2018 represent two very fine back-t.
Burghound
A very pungent nose speaks only of reduction and wood. Otherwise the succulent but more voluminous middle weight plus flavors exude a subtle minerality before concluding in solidly powerful, strikingly complex and impressively persistent finish. At the risk of repeating myself, this is not going to wow you with its concentration but it will with its depth and overall sense of harmony and balance.