Ratings & Tasting Notes:

98 points Tim Atkin (Decanter), October 2019

This review highlights the wine’s rare abundance — a record seven barrels for the estate — describing an intense, complex bouquet layered with citrus, stone fruit, and spice, calling it “a white that takes your breath away” with near-perfect balance.

97-99 points Neal Martin (Vinous), January 2020

This review describes a penetrating bouquet with astonishing mineral tension, scents of wet granite, citrus lemon, and grilled walnut, and a beautifully balanced palate with stunning persistence, simply calling it a wine that makes you go “WOW.”

97 points John Gilman, December 2019

This review notes the wine was among the last picked at the domaine that year, describing stunning purity and depth in a bouquet of pear, passion fruit, and coconut over complex chalky soil tones, calling it “a wine of dimension, precision and haunting beauty.”

96-98 points William Kelley (Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate), January 2020

This review highlights the rare seven-barrel yield, describing expressive aromas of orange oil, white flowers, and toasted almonds on a full-bodied, fleshy palate with “chalky grip on the impressively long finish.”

Cult Wines International Notes:

Domaine des Comtes Lafon stands among the most revered names in white Burgundy, farming roughly 14 hectares across Meursault, Volnay, Monthélie, and Puligny-Montrachet, entirely under biodynamic cultivation. The domaine has been in the Lafon family since the early 1800s, with Dominique Lafon taking the reins in 1984 and building the estate’s reputation as one of the most meticulous, terroir-focused producers in the region. The domaine’s tiny holding in Le Montrachet places it alongside legendary neighbors like Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and Domaine Leflaive as one of the handful of producers permitted to bottle wine from this most prestigious of all white wine vineyards.

The 2018 vintage marked a genuine turning point after several historically scarce years for this bottling, with the domaine producing a full seven barrels — the largest yield since 1982, and nearly double the norm of the preceding decade. Broader conditions across Burgundy that year were widely celebrated, following a warm, generous growing season that delivered abundant, high-quality fruit across the region after the punishing frost losses of 2016. Critics have praised this vintage for combining rare volume with real precision and depth, making it one of the most acclaimed and sought-after modern releases of this legendary wine.

Bottle Size:

750 mL

Storage History:

Always stored on its side in a climate-controlled cellar.

Condition:

Please note: The bottle shown is the exact bottle being sold.

Outstanding condition.