
Domaine Michel Lafarge
- Red
- France
- Volnay 1er Cru 'Clos du Château des Ducs'
- Pinot Noir
- Tracked vintages
- 37
- Community notes
- 373
- Merchant offers
- 46
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002020 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 90/ 100373 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £138per 75 cl2022 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- Drinking window
- 2026–2050drinking2020 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 65 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Burgundy Côte de Beaune Red.
- Body2.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.8 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin2.4 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red cherry
- Earth · mushroom, earthy, forest floor, leather, minerals
- Oak · oak, chocolate, toffee, cedar, vanilla
- Spice · pepper, dried herbs, cinnamon, licorice, mint
- Black fruit · plum, black cherry, black fruit, blackcurrant, blueberry
- Floral · dried flowers, dried rose, peony, perfume
Grapes: Pinot Noir. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
1993One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2022
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2023unit not stated
- 2022£138 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- 202095critic£396 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023
- 201995critic£269 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023
- 201892critic£175 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024
- 201796criticunit not stated
- 201694critic£246 / 75cl2-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023
- 201595critic£273 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022
- 201490criticunit not stated
- 201392critic£102 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022
- 201294criticunit not stated
- 201192critic£120 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- 201094critic
- 200992critic
- 200891drinkers
- 200789drinkers
- 200691critic
- 200592critic
- 200489critic
- 200390drinkers
- 200294critic
- 200090drinkers
- 199993drinkers
- 199892drinkers
- 199789drinkersunit not stated
- 199692drinkers
- 199591drinkers
- 199487drinkers
- 199393critic£278 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017
- 199289drinkers
- 199193drinkers
- 199091drinkersunit not stated
- 198993drinkers
- 198888drinkers
- 198767drinkers
- 198593drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2017
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2017
- drinking, window 2023–2050
- Lowest price
- 2013
- £102 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | £138 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026 |
| 2020 | £396 | 95 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023 |
| 2019 | £269 | 95.2 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023 |
| 2018 | £175 | 92 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024 |
| 2016 | £246 | 94 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 2-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023 |
| 2015 | £273 | 94.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022 |
| 2013 | £102 | 91.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022 |
| 2011 | £120 | 91.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026 |
| 1993 | £278 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017 |
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