What's Pressoir Drinking?
By Eléonore Lafarge
Wednesday, March 10
La Paulée is starting today! Santé!
I decided it was time to drink a nice bottle of Burgundy. Every small occasion is a good reason to get the wine opener out (especially if it’s a Burgundy bottle!).
With this in mind, I recently walked into a wine store by my place in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. As I wandered around the small shop, I found the Burgundy selection. It was certainly small but pretty interesting. The shelf was full of Crémant de Bourgogne, Chablis, Savigny-les-Beaune as well as some of my parents’ friends, Domaine des Héritiers du Comte Lafon, Lucien Jacob, Domaine Bitouzet Prieur…The last one being my parents’ neighbor, New York couldn’t feel more like home at this instant!
And I immediately spotted a very recognizable label. I am not very adventurous and was in search of a good Burgundy bottle, I decided to go with this yellow label. You can never go wrong with a Lafon!
So I enjoyed a bottle of Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon, Mâcon-Village 2019. The wine was expressive with a lot of citrus notes. On the palate, the wine is bright and full-bodied. Even though the weather was still cold, it was still very enjoyable to have a fresh wine.
A very nice Chardonnay to celebrate the upcoming start of La Paulée!
