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Domaine des Comtes Lafon

The low crop level owing to a difficult flowering resulted in a number of weighty wines, said Dominique Lafon, who believed that the jury was still out on the quality of the new vintage."The white wines could turn out to be great, but they won't be showy young," he said."They have a lot of everything-structure, ripeness, power-but almost too much.The 1990 vintage was a bit like this in its youth."In contrast to many of his colleagues Lafon did more stirring of the lees in 2005 than in 2004, as he found that the 2005s were very reductive and needed the batonnage.Lafon told me that he, Thierry Matrot and Jean-Marc Roulot were the first growers in the village to start harvesting in 2005.Incidentally, Lafon is very high on his 2004 whites, which he currently likes better than the '05s "and maybe even the '02s." (Classic Wine Imports, Boston, MA; also a Daniel Johnnes Selection; imported by Michael Skurnik Wines, Syosset, NY)

From 2005 White Burgundies (Jul 2006) by Stephen Tanzer

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2005 Meursault Charmes

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