Due to the low yields caused by frost damage in April there will be no 2016 Montrachet from six owners of Montrachet. They will instead make one cuvée together - two casks equivalent to 600 bottles. It's the estates Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Comte Lafon, Domaine Leflaive, Guy Amiot, Lamy …
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Domaine Leflaive, Puligny-Montrachet Clavoillon 2014
The 2014 Domaine Leflaive Pulight-Montrachet is a very refined and elegant wine. The nose offer pure and crystaline white orchard fruits supported by a lovely citrus infused minerality. On the palate very delicate and detailed - offering plenty of length and intensity in a effortless and airy way. …
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Domaine Leflaive, Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles 2002
The 02 Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles is still relatievly fresh. In the nose classic Leflaive gun powder, yellow fruit, quite complex with maturing notes. On the palate fine quite rich fruit ... good weight but perhaps not the most precise or defined Pucelles I have tasted. A mixed picture ... …
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Odds and ends around Christmas and New Year
I tasted quite a few interesting wines at social gatherings while celebrating Christmas and New Year. Lafon galore .. the good, the ugly Starting out with the whites I tasted three wines from Comte Lafon two 2004s - Les Perrieres and Les Charmes, and one sadly premoxed example of the 2001 …
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Domaine Leflaive, Chevalier Montrachet 2007
The 2007 Laflaive Chevalier is showing very well indeed and even surpassing the delightful Batard 2007 .. perfect ripeness for the vintage. In the nose quite expressive organic fruit ... richer and more exotic that the frisky Batrard - offering white peach, white flowers, hint of apple and …
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