12 bottles per lot
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Meursault 1er cru, Désirée--Vintage 1996
Domaine-bottled: Comtes Lafon
Offered in a carton
Tasting Note: The Meursault Desiree has toasted almond and mineral scents as well as an extremely refined, ripe, ample, delineated, and medium-bodied core of stones and spicy poached pears. Well-balanced and vibrant, this wine should peak around 2001 and continue to evolve beautifully through 2005. The rating, with the range of scores in parentheses, indicates the wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Dominique Lafon performed more batonnage than usual on his 1996s, "to give them more richness," he said. However, unlike some other vignerons, Lafon abandons the practice when the malos start because he wants his wines to be protected by the carbon dioxide gas that is a by product of a wine's malo-lactic fermentation. Lafon's yields were between 35 and 45 hectoliters/hectare, demonstrating his dedication to quality in this potentially high-yielding vintage. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate # 115 (Feb 1998)
12 bottles per lot
Domaine-bottled: Comtes Lafon
Offered in a carton
Tasting Note: The Meursault Desiree has toasted almond and mineral scents as well as an extremely refined, ripe, ample, delineated, and medium-bodied core of stones and spicy poached pears. Well-balanced and vibrant, this wine should peak around 2001 and continue to evolve beautifully through 2005. The rating, with the range of scores in parentheses, indicates the wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Dominique Lafon performed more batonnage than usual on his 1996s, "to give them more richness," he said. However, unlike some other vignerons, Lafon abandons the practice when the malos start because he wants his wines to be protected by the carbon dioxide gas that is a by product of a wine's malo-lactic fermentation. Lafon's yields were between 35 and 45 hectoliters/hectare, demonstrating his dedication to quality in this potentially high-yielding vintage. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate # 115 (Feb 1998)
12 bottles per lot