438: Five Decades of Burgundy with Dominique Lafon

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🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Dominique Lafon is the Managing Director of Domaine des Comtes Lafon, with cellars in the Burgundy village of Meursault. Dominique also founded the Mâcon winery Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon, and the Burgundy négociant label Dominique Lafon. He consults in Oregon at Lingua Franca Wines.

Dominique discusses his firsthand meetings with some of the greats of Burgundy of a previous generation, people like Henri Jayer, Pierre Ramonet, Gérard Potel, and Hubert de Montille. He also assesses the contribution of his own generation in Burgundy, and talks about the importance of his stint working for Becky Wasserman. Dominique relates the qualities of the Meursault, Beaune, and Volnay crus he vinifies, and gives his observations about the Montrachet vineyard. He gives his opinion on the merits of various cellar techniques, and talks about what is important to him in his own winery and vineyard work in the Côte de Beaune, the Mâcon, and in Oregon.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Domini Dominic Lefanofan of Compefan in Merso, Hello Sir, how are you?
0:28.0	I'm very good, thank you.
0:29.0	Very nice to see you.
0:30.0	So you actually originally grew up in Paris when you were a kid.
0:33.6	Yeah, my father was an engineer and he was in charge of the demand but it was like not
0:40.4	exactly spending his time at the man.
0:44.1	And his job was more in Paris.
0:46.4	So, Antia was seven.
0:48.6	I was in Paris and my father was like
0:51.9	moving every weekend down to Mso to check it out to check the demand.
0:56.0	And he'd taken over in the 50s?
0:59.0	In 56, yeah, after a kind of a family fight, part of the family wanted to sell the man and he tried to stop that and he succeeded actually.
1:10.0	So he was an engineer and he had sharecroppers working for him.
1:14.0	Yes, that's how it was organized and that's how the domain has been organized from start.
1:19.0	Then he was sort of working the land themselves because they had something else to do and they had people to work the land.
1:26.0	It's how it was organized so you get half the crop.
1:30.0	Sometimes people would sell the half of the crop.
1:33.4	We've always made the wine out of half the crop.
1:36.3	And one of those sharecroppers was Pierre More.
1:38.5	Exactly.
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