Domaine des Comtes Lafon Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots du Milieu 2023 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider Floral aromatics and citrus minerality

Floral aromatics and citrus minerality sing with restrained elegance

on soils shaped by a massive volcanic eruption 300 million years ago

making it a remarkably smooth whiskey legend

for the fossilized oysters — exogyres — embedded in its Kimmeridgian limestone soils

The nose opens with citrus and stone fruits—peach and quince—enhanced by mineral flinty notes

Domaine des Comtes Lafon Volnay 1er Cru Les Santenots du Milieu 2023 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider Floral aromatics and citrus mineralityA quirk of Burgundy law: Les Santenots du Milieu sits physically in the commune of Meursault, but when planted to Pinot Noir it is classified as Volnay 1er Cru and this site is Lafon's classic red, sourced from iron rich soils that give the wine its dark fruit and savory depth. Dominique Lafon's biodynamic farming and unhurried levage shape a Volnay that's structured but never austere, the kind of red that ages gracefully for two decades or more. One