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Wine Description
The Story
The wines of Domaine Leroy are among the most elegant, collectable, and rare wines in the Cote d’Or and entire world. Madame Lalou Bize-Leroy is the driving force behind the Leroy empire. She inherited the successful, terroir expressive winery in 1971 from her father, and has developed a reputation as the first important female leader in Burgundy. The intense quality focused crops only yield a quarter of the fruit compared to other vineyards i...
Vintage 1959
Burgundy: A record crop of magnificent wines, legendary and still very good. Full but soft-textured. After a number of difficult vintages and small crops, finally a great vintage arrived with the rare combination of sufficient quantity and high quality.
An ideal spring flowering was followed by hot and dry weather in July and August. Showers refreshed the vines and on 14 September the harvest commenced under clear skies.
Great, charmi...
