Domaine des Comtes Lafon - Volnay Santenots-du-Milieu 1er Cru - 2019 | French Red Wine

Dominique Lafon, current domain manager, succeeded his father in 1984, and began in 1987 to break the sharecropping contracts. Since 1993, all the vines are directly operated by the Domaine des Comtes Lafon.

The area has 16.30 hectares of vines, planted 1/3 Pinoit Noir, 2/3 Chardonnay, spread over 4 towns and producing 15 appellations. The production method is biodynamic since the 1998 vintage, and the estate got the Organic Agriculture certification that year. The production quality is ensured upstream in the vines, whose average age is high, worked without fertilizer and through manual harvesting and aging of wines for many months before bottling.