Comte Lafon Volnay Santenots Milieu 1er 1999 CurrentEvents ripe black plums and warm

ripe black plums and warm cassis plus hints of tilled earth

Truly excellent

The delicious and relatively refined larger-scaled flavors possess a caressing mid-palate texture that contrasts somewhat with the muscular

A blend of merlot

94 points | James Suckling

Comte Lafon Volnay Santenots Milieu 1er 1999 CurrentEvents ripe black plums and warm94 Points Burghound, Allen Meadows While the Clos des Chnes performed as expected relative to the cask sample, the final Santenots was even better than the cask sample. Wonderfully expressive with massive amounts of spicy black fruit and seductive flavors; the wine has an enormous amount of underlying material and is incredibly complex. But it's the length that defines this wine as it simply goes on and on. It's not hard to see why Lafon believes this