Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon

Mâcon Chardonnay, Clos de la Crochette, 2020

Name: Mâcon Chardonnay, Clos de la Crochette
Brand: Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon
Price: 269.47 GBP

91/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

91/100

Vinous

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all 2020 2023

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2020
12x75cl
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£269.47

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

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.

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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

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Critic Reviews

91/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Attractive aromas of yellow orchard fruit, nectarine, white flowers and fresh pasty introduce the 2020 Macon-Chardonnay Clos de la Crochette, a medium to full-bodied, ample and satiny wine with a fleshy core of fruit and a saline finish. It will drink well on release.

drinking window 2022 - 2030

date of review 09/2022

91/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

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.

drinking window 2024 - 2042

date of review 11/2021

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Specifications

Country:

France

Region:

Burgundy

Appellation:

Mâcon

Producer:

Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon

style:

White Wine

Grape Variety:

Chardonnay

abv:

13%

allergen information

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.