Comtes Lafon, Volnay Champans Brut Zero iodine and brown butter

iodine and brown butter

This is just beginning to give its best

violet and lavender

There is excellent power and concentration to the very round but tension-filled broad-shouldered flavors that possess excellent size

Bouchard always seems to do very well with this appellation and the 2012 version is no exception

Comtes Lafon, Volnay Champans Brut Zero iodine and brown butter(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