Comtes Lafon Volnay Santenots du Milieu 1er Cru 1990 (750ML)

96 JM / 94 WA 

Gloriously powerful, huge weight and strength to this wine, the fruit is still full of energy. Can hardly wait to keep this for another 10 years! Hard to see how this could possibly be better. It keeps improving in the glass and the length is impeccable. Amazing persistence. Tasted: September 2013 -Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy

The 1990 Volnay Santenots has a typically showy, fruit-driven, almost precocious bouquet with a surfeit of dark plum, raspberry, orange sorbet and glycerine scents that soar from the glass and never let up. The palate has more volume and more viscosity than the 1989: very sensual and quite modern in style when you compare it to the 1985 or 1978. But there is a riveting sense of completeness here, a wine that will not let you down from start to finish and, moreover, you can envisage it continuing to perform at a top level for another 20 years. Drink now-2025+. Tasted September 2013. -Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate