2008 Le Montrachet
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Lafon's 2008 Montrachet Grand Cru is showing well, though it can't match the lovely 2009. Offering up a creamy, lactic bouquet of sweet orchard fruit and orange oil, it's medium to full-bodied, satiny and racy, with a comparatively taut, streamlined profile by the standards of this cuvée.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
Jancis Robinson MW
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This bottle was decanted before serving. Quite a rich gold colour. But a delightful spark of flinty reduction on the nose. This casts the whole aroma into a sort of stony key, as un-fruity as the 2009 but savoury rather than sweet. With time, characteristic peach notes, plus the red apple typical of the vintage, start to emerge. The wine becomes amazingly exotic for this more austere year. There is really magnificent scale and structure here. It has a captivating, if slightly eccentric, personality. (AH)
(fined last week) Pale yellow. Knockout nose combines smoky vanillin oak, toasty reduction and iodine. Then extremely rich and powerful in the mouth, with a strong acid spine leavening the impression of solidity. This wonderfully tactile wine finishes with outstanding persistence. Lafon compares it in quality to the 2007 but says this one is richer.