Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon - Viré Clessé 2018
Domaine des Comtes Lafon is located in Meursault, in Côte de Beaune, Burgundy. It also has vineyards in three other villages: Chassagne-Montrachet, Volnay and Monthélie. Comtes Lafon's house and cellar were built in 1869 by the Boch family, but its reputation as a winery was most heavily influenced by Jules Lafon, who married Marie Boch in 1894. Lafon bought many of the significant Premier Cru plots in Meursault and Volnay, and in 1919, parcels in the Grand Cru Le Montrachet vineyard. In 1995, it adopted organic practices and since 1998 has been entirely biodynamic. In 1999, Comtes Lafon expanded into the Mâcon in southern Burgundy with a second label: Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon. It now has more than 20 hectares of vines, mainly spread over 3 large sectors. The Domaine's "historic" vineyard in the Milly-Lamartine and Bussières sector, from which one of the emblematic cuvées, the Clos du Four, comes, the Chardonnay sector, with its now famous Clos de la Crochette, and the Viré- Clessé where the Domaine has owned more than 6 hectares of vines since the end of the 2000s. The estate also operates vines in Saint-Véran and Pouilly-Fuissé.
The Viré-Clessé is made from Chardonnay. The wine is aged on the lees in 45-and-500-hectolitres barrels for 10 months.
Grape variety: 100% Chardonnay
