Claude Lafond: Tasting & Drinking
Having stopped off in Reuilly I encountered the wines of Claude Lafond for the first time sur place. His wines, and in particular his 2010 Reuilly Le Clos des Messieurs, were nothing short of revelatory. It is a long time since I first explored the wines of Reuilly, and I clearly had a outdated mental picture of the wines as perhaps rather pale and lean imitations of Sancerre, an image formed on tastings which were perhaps too many years ago now. The wine I experienced here, however, was richly concentrated, ripe and yet fresh, with a svelte texture and broad confidence, all of which was quite different to what I was expecting.
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