97-99 points Neal Martin (Vinous): "The 2018 Montrachet Grand Cru comprises seven barrels this year. It has a stunning, penetrating bouquet that rivets you to the spot with astonishing mineral tension and scents of wet granite, citrus lemon and grilled walnut. The beautifully balanced palate offers hints of white chocolate and almond and amazing delineation and mineralité, not to mention stunning persistence on the finish. This is a wine that makes you go 'wow,' or rather 'WOW' – it deserves capital letters. Drink: 2025-2060. (Jan 2020)"
97-99 points Fine Wine Review: "The yields here were 48 hl/ha (I counted seven barrels), which sounds high, although Chardonnay has long been known to be relatively elastic on yields. The result is a great Montrachet. The nose is stony. The mouth is majestic with good concentration, finesse, length, salinity, and persistence. (11/19/19)"
96-99 points Jasper Morris, MW: "The vineyard has produced an unheard of 7 barrels in 2018! Beautiful seamless colour. The nose displays the class which will come. It just gently starts to break out after several minutes in the glass. The oak is totally tamed. The fruit profile is discreet and in a sense so is the intensity. It is really just after you have completed tasting that the flavours emerge, dancing multiple fruits: if there is apple, it is ripe, where there is peach it is just the subtlest infusion. (Oct 2019)"
98 points Tim Atkin, MW (Decanter): "The very good news for fans of this wine - and that surely includes anyone who has been lucky enough to drink a bottle - is that Dominique Lafon produced a record (for him) seven barrels in 2018, the most since his father was in charge back in 1982. Sourced from a 0.3ha of Burgundy's most famous white Grand Cru, it's a white that takes your breath away: subtle, complex and intense, with easily digested new wood, layers of citrus, stone fruit and spice and near-perfect balance. Drink: 2023-2035. (Oct 2019)"
96-98 points William Kelley (Wine Advocate): "There are fully seven barrels of the 2018 Montrachet Grand Cru—one fewer than the eight produced in 1982, but considerably more than the four that have been more or less the norm over the last decade—equating to a yield of around 45 hectoliters per hectare from Lafon's 0.32-hectare parcel. Bursting with expressive aromas of orange oil, white flowers, ripe pears, warm bread and toasted almonds, it's full-bodied, fleshy and enveloping, with a satiny-textured attack, an ample core of fruit and chalky grip on the impressively long finish. (Jan 2020)"
97 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2018 Montrachet was one of the last wines picked at the domaine, as the grapes here were not brought in until September 4th in this year. The wine has turned out beautifully, delivering stunning purity and depth in its bouquet of pear, passion fruit, coconut, a very complex base of chalky soil tones, spring flowers and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and nascently complex, with outstanding mid-palate depth, a fine girdle of acidity and a long, soil-driven and beautifully energetic finish. Like all the top vintages of Lafon Montrachet that I have been fortunate enough to taste, this is not a powerful example of the vineyard, but rather a wine of dimension, precision and haunting beauty. 2028-2070. (Nov/Dec 2019)"
97-99 points Fine Wine Review: "The yields here were 48 hl/ha (I counted seven barrels), which sounds high, although Chardonnay has long been known to be relatively elastic on yields. The result is a great Montrachet. The nose is stony. The mouth is majestic with good concentration, finesse, length, salinity, and persistence. (11/19/19)"
96-99 points Jasper Morris, MW: "The vineyard has produced an unheard of 7 barrels in 2018! Beautiful seamless colour. The nose displays the class which will come. It just gently starts to break out after several minutes in the glass. The oak is totally tamed. The fruit profile is discreet and in a sense so is the intensity. It is really just after you have completed tasting that the flavours emerge, dancing multiple fruits: if there is apple, it is ripe, where there is peach it is just the subtlest infusion. (Oct 2019)"
98 points Tim Atkin, MW (Decanter): "The very good news for fans of this wine - and that surely includes anyone who has been lucky enough to drink a bottle - is that Dominique Lafon produced a record (for him) seven barrels in 2018, the most since his father was in charge back in 1982. Sourced from a 0.3ha of Burgundy's most famous white Grand Cru, it's a white that takes your breath away: subtle, complex and intense, with easily digested new wood, layers of citrus, stone fruit and spice and near-perfect balance. Drink: 2023-2035. (Oct 2019)"
96-98 points William Kelley (Wine Advocate): "There are fully seven barrels of the 2018 Montrachet Grand Cru—one fewer than the eight produced in 1982, but considerably more than the four that have been more or less the norm over the last decade—equating to a yield of around 45 hectoliters per hectare from Lafon's 0.32-hectare parcel. Bursting with expressive aromas of orange oil, white flowers, ripe pears, warm bread and toasted almonds, it's full-bodied, fleshy and enveloping, with a satiny-textured attack, an ample core of fruit and chalky grip on the impressively long finish. (Jan 2020)"
97 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2018 Montrachet was one of the last wines picked at the domaine, as the grapes here were not brought in until September 4th in this year. The wine has turned out beautifully, delivering stunning purity and depth in its bouquet of pear, passion fruit, coconut, a very complex base of chalky soil tones, spring flowers and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and nascently complex, with outstanding mid-palate depth, a fine girdle of acidity and a long, soil-driven and beautifully energetic finish. Like all the top vintages of Lafon Montrachet that I have been fortunate enough to taste, this is not a powerful example of the vineyard, but rather a wine of dimension, precision and haunting beauty. 2028-2070. (Nov/Dec 2019)"
| Product SKU | 338998 |
| Producer | Comtes Lafon |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| SubRegion | Côtes de Beaune |
| Varietal | Chardonnay |
| Designation | Grand Cru |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Color | White |
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