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Best wine of the evening - Chevalier Montrachet from Leflaive. The bouquet is still very tight and youthful. Notes of gun powder and a strong minerality. The palate slighly more developed, with a huge minerality and great length. Very focused and balanced ... but only showing a small part of the …
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Les Pucelles 2000 from Domaine Leflaive is a very charming wine. Two bottles were served, on from a very cold cellar, and one from a slightly warmer cellar. Both were quite open and mature, with a wonderful charming personality. It's quite a soft vintage, but still this wine has a good minerality …
The Batard-Montrachet 1995 is a wonderful mature white Burgundy. Very fine mature notes in the bouquet, still fresh but quite mature. On the palate very good minerality, great length and freshness, a very well balanced wine. A very fine core of ripe chardonnay fruit completes this very fine white …
The Folatieres 2004 from Chateau de Puligny Montrachet was a pleasent surprise. Wonderful fresh bouquet with beginning mature chardonnay notes combined with a fine minerality and acidity - 2004 at it's best. Very fine balance with good mature flavors and a excellent freshness. Still not fully …
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Chevalier Montrachet 1997 from Domaine Leflaive was a disappointment. Sadly very closed with only a lot of minerality showing the potential. Quite a large scale wine, but not much fruit, freshness and charm is showing. Not clear signs of premox, but have had quite a few Pucelles 1997 with premox …
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