2024 Meursault 1er Cru Genevrières, Domaine des Comtes Lafon

The Lafon holding consists of 0.55 hectares across two plots, planted in the mid-1940s and early-1990s. Genevrières is always a wine of supreme elegance, and the 2024 vintage has only emphasised that character, adding a zesty spine to the refined and controlled citrus and white pach fruit, perhaps bringing it a little closer to Puligny in style. It is one of the most elegant and driven Genevrières I have ever encountered; freshly squeezed lemon and lime mingling on the nose with grilled hazelnut, wet stone and iodine. The palate also does not disappoint; there is a cool purity that is reminiscent of an icy mountain stream, carrying the fruit along to a seemingly endless finish. Spine tingling !