2013 Domaine des Comtés Lafon Meursault Desiree
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(ready to bottle, according to Lafon): Sexy aromas of peach, menthol, spices and stone. Fine-grained and sweet, showing lovely finesse and a distinctly more refined texture than the regular village wine. Excellent intensity and length here.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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There was just a tiny bit of reduction on the 2013 Meursault Desirée when I tasted it from barrel (it was racked onto the lees of the Meursault Village in order to get it going), but it gradually unfolds with hazelnut and flint aromas. The palate is well balanced, slightly honeyed in style with a soft, caressing citrus finish that is just missing a little complexity and just loses focus toward the finish. This was one where I felt just a little shortchanged.
Very normal evolution and lots of charm. Especially on the nose. Almost rich! (JR)
(tasted from a year-old barrel): Musky, slightly reduced aromas of stone fruits, smoke and flinty minerality. Sweet, silky and pure; rich and ripe but lively too, with peachy fruit complicated by a note of barrel char. Finishes smooth and long. The crop level here was just 22 hectoliters per hectare, says Lafon, who told me this wine reminded him a bit in style of the 2010.