Mâcon Chardonnay, Clos de la Crochette
Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon

Mâcon Chardonnay, Clos de la Crochette


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2020
12x75cl
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£302.46


Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon, Mâcon Chardonnay, Clos de la Crochette

2020

Tasting Notes


Maturity:
Keep

ABV:
13 %

Notes

A different profile of wine to the other, more southerly, Mâcons in the Lafon stable. More open and aromatic with crisp orchard fruit. There is great tension and finesse here. Impressively bright, graceful and gently floral. The Clos de la Crochette's grapes are usually the first to be picked on Lafon's Mâconnais estate, being well exposed and one of the lower vineyards at 200 metres above sea level. The wine is aged half in large oak foudres and half in oak demi-muid barrels. From the northern sector of the Mâcon, near to Uchizy.

Critics score


Score:
91

100

Source:
Neal Martin, Vinous

Date:
11/2021

Notes
The 2020 Mâcon-Chardonnay Clos de la Crochette has a wonderful bouquet with fine delineation and touches of crushed rock filtering through the malic fruit. The palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity. Somehow playful, this is a joyful Mâconnais wine with a long saline finish. Closure: Diam.

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country:
France

region:
Burgundy

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Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon

Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon

Dominique Lafon had been eyeing land and property in the Maconnais for some time before he eventually bought some cellars and vineyards around the village of Milly. Here he recognised an opportunity to produce fine wine, terroir-rich, wines that would not cost the earth. The quality and attention to detail is the same here as it is at the Domaine des Comtes Lafon estate in Meursault. Farming is biodynamic, fermentation is in tank plot by plot, and ageing is tailored to each terroir, in a mixture of steel tanks, wooden foudres, and demi-muid oak casks. Dominique has a wonderful spread of vines at his disposal from accross the region, showing how diverse and interesting the Maconnais can be. From the old vines of Viré-Clessé producing floral, expressive wines to the more mineral intensity of Macon-Milly, and the racy and intense en Chatenay Pouilly-Fuissé vineyard of Vergisson.

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