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    1 073
  • Producer ranking ?

    14
  • Decanting time

    -
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Salads

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The Story

In 1984 Olivier and Patrick Leflaive left the family business, Domaine Leflaive, to establish the negociant house that bears their name. At the same time, they agreed with their family at Domaine Leflaive that the vineyards they owned would remain under contract with the Domaine. This contract came to term in 2010 and the vineyards have now come back under the control of Olivier and Patrick Leflaive and their company, Olivier Leflaive Frères. ...

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Vintage 2012

2012 was beset by unusual weather that didn’t spare the vines! A mild winter, spring-like March, cool spring with frosts, summer-like May, cooler, wetter June, a variable summer with heatwaves, hail and storms… Because of the cold damp spring, some of the vine flowers didn’t set and form fruit, there was millerandage (where the flowers aren’t fully fertilised and give small berries) and high pressure from mildew and odium. Temperatures went ri...

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This has just been filtered when I tasted from barrel, so it wasn’t showing at the top of its form. But it’s still an impressive wine, with classic struck match notes, some grilled toast and oatmeal and pure, racy acidity. It just needs to open up a little more in bottle to take on some more breadth and power

  • 94p

Smoky, attractive apple and floral character. Not as broad in flavour as the Bâtard-Montrachet, perhaps but with many fine layers of texture and intensity and a really steely finish. Drink 2017-2027. – Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com 18/20

  • 93p
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Origin

Puligny-Montrachet, Burgundy

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