Meursault Genevrières, Domaine des Comtes Lafon 1992

Among the 1992 premier crus, the top wine is the exquisite, awesome 1992 Meursault-Les Genevrieres. It is a huge wine, with extraordinary richness, broad, intense flavors, magnificent length, and uncanny precision. This full-bodied, dazzling Meursault should turn out to be fabulous.

The 1992s are still in cask, hence the estimated ratings. They are ripe, rich, precocious wines that will not have the aging potential of the superb 1989s, and excellent 1990s. Lafon, who sells only ten percent of his production to the United States, believes his 1992s are similar to the 1982s (probably the best wines of the vintage), but with more intensity and purity.