youthfully austere and very firm finale

The mouthfeel

bright yellow

full and sleekly muscled big-bodied flavors that are highly complex

full-bodied and with very silky tannins

Comtes Lafon, Volnay Champans Vintage:2012 youthfully austere and very firm(from 85+ year old vines planted in deep sandy soil with dense but small rocks). This is also lightly reduced and about the only element that can be discerned today is a soft application of wood. There is once again excellent freshness and verve to the slightly finer and equally mineral driven flavors that display focused power on the driving and gorgeously complex finale. In the same fashion as the Clos des Chnes, this is not a monster of