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2016 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Volnay 1er Cru "Les Santenots du Milieu"

2016 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Volnay 1er Cru "Les Santenots du Milieu"

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Vinous

Review Date: 01/2018

Healthy dark red. Fully ripe aromas of kirsch, boysenberry and dark chocolate. Quite rich and voluminous for the vintage, a step up in sweetness from the Champans. This seamless, juicy, perfectly balanced fruit bomb is not at all clenched or overextracted. Finishes with superb palate-saturating length and wonderfully refined tannins. It's quite striking today the way these wines in fûts maintain perfect clarity. When I asked Lafon to compare this wine to a previous vintage, he responded that he'd have to go back to 1985 or 1978. (ST)

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Wine Advocate

Review Date: 01/2019
Aromas of dark cherries, incense, baking chocolate and rich soil tones introduce the 2016 Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots-du-Milieu, a medium to full-bodied wine with superb depth and dimension, juicy balancing acids and powdery structuring tannins. The finish is long and sapid. It's an excellent Santenots that has really fleshed out since I tasted it from barrel. (WK)

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Burghound

Review Date: 04/2019
A brooding and overtly floral nose combines notes of rose petal, violet and lavender with those of spiced plum, red currant and a whiff of earth. Lafon's Santenots is typically a fairly muscular wine but in 2016 it is more a wine of refinement though I stress that there is excellent concentration and punch on the impeccably well-balanced finish that flashes just a hint of austerity. Despite the refinement, make no mistake that this is a firmly structured wine that should be capable of aging effortlessly for years.

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Jasper Morris

Review Date: 06/2023
A glowing powerful fresh crimson-purple. Very pure and certainly concentrated on the nose. Tighter with firm acidity and the fruit has riper plums with a deep raspberry concentration behind. The tannins still need to finish resolving. With time in the glass the nose became ever more sensual and the tannins do indeed begin to resolve. A sensual wine for Dominique.
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96 points Tim Atkin M.W.: "Santenots is the most sought-after and complete of Dominic Lafon’s trio of Volnays, combining the freshness and minerality of Clos des Chênes with the fruit weight and structure of Champans. Floral and fine, but with underlying grip and the concentration to age well in bottle. Polished and refined." (01/2018)

Product Details

Origin: Volnay, Burgundy, France

Type/Varietal: Pinot Noir

SKU: #1986703