Les Heritiers du Comte Lafon Macon Uchizy Les Maranches 2024 SF Chronicle The 2005 vintage rum highlights

The 2005 vintage rum highlights the ancestral Jamaican style: 12 years aging in Jamaica and 1-2 years in France

Expect a Dent de Chien that drinks well young while retaining the underlying tension of the site

grapefruit and spices emerge

spontaneous fermentations

a man who has spent decades running one of the country's deepest cellars and knows exactly what a crowd-pleasing Chardonnay should cost

Les Heritiers du Comte Lafon Macon Uchizy Les Maranches 2024 SF Chronicle The 2005 vintage rum highlightsFrom the village of Uchizy in the northern Mconnais comes this Chardonnay from Les Hritiers du Comte Lafon, the biodynamic estate of Burgundy luminary Dominique Lafon. The Les Maranches site gives a white with real energy and lift, farmed organically and biodynamically and aged in large wood for purity. Lafon's Mcon wines have a knack for delivering Cte d'Or finesse at down to earth prices, and this one is no exception. A bright, precise white that