The 2023 Meursault “Désirée” was bottled in the third week of December as well and was also showing very well indeed. The wine’s aromatic constellation is complex and very refined, offering up notes of pear, golden delicious apple, almond, chalky soil tones, a deft touch of vanillin oak and a classic Meursault floral topnote of geraniums. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and really shows a lovely core of fruit, with fine soil inflection, bright acids and very fine length and grip on the complex and beautifully balanced finish. Fine juice. (Drink between 2025-2050)

The 2023 Meursault Désirée is lovely, wafting from the glass with notes of orange oil, apple and citrus blossom and sweet stone fruits. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered, it's suave and sensual, with a fleshy core that segues into a long, elegantly chalky finish. The 2023 vintage is another success from Domaine des Comtes Lafon, now headed by Léa and Pierre Lafon, delivering both quantity and quality like 2022 before it, though in a somewhat fleshier, more extroverted style. While a few new cuvées have joined the range, for now, no big changes are afoot, and Dominque Lafon continues to be a guiding presence. Organic and biodynamic farming in the vineyards, barrel fermentation for whites, two winters' élevage on the lees for both colors and bottling under Diam technical corks (since 2013) continue to be the order of the day.(WK)

The Lafons are now picking their Desirée earlier. Fresh apples on the nose. Then more weight on the palate, more of the flesh that I expect from this site. Good length, plenty of juice here. Avoids being too soft Drink from 2028-2032. Tasted Oct 2024.