Leflaive Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru 2001 750ml

Burghound.com/ Tasted: Mar 06, 2010
Incredibly fine, mineral-suffused and mildly tropical fruit aromas that evidences a pronounced chalk and stone quality lead to dense, fine, rich, delineated, powerful, elegant and superbly focused middle weight flavors that deliver outstanding complexity on the stunningly long backend, all the while displaying dazzling purity. An absolutely gorgeous wine that has it all. Note that while this could easily be cellared for another 3 to 5 years first, I generally like to begin drinking vintages that begin to show a certain tropicality earlier than those that do not. This is obviously a personal choice however and the balance and freshness here are so good that there is certainly no rush. Tasted several times with consistent notes.

Domaine Leflaive is the most famous estate in Puligny-Montrachet. Anne-Claude Leflaive became co-gérant of this famous Puligny domaine in 1990 - she move towards an organic approach to her vineyards.
After seven years of experiments, with one third of the domaine biodynamic and two thirds organic, the whole domaine was converted to biodynamic farming in 1997, following in the footsteps of Lalou Bize-Leroy and Nicolas Joly.
Leflaives have been extant in Puligny since 1717 but the real founder of the domaine was Joseph (1870-1953) who was succeeded by two of his sons, Vincent and Jo. Responsibility in today’s generation was at first shared by cousins Olivier and Anne-Claude Leflaive, with the latter taking sole responsibility from 1994. The domaine will lose Olivier’s share of the vineyards from 2009.
Leflaive has 22 hectares of vineyards, including 10 hectares of Premiers Crus (in Puligny Montrachet: Les Combettes, Les Pucelles, Les Clavoillons, Les Folatieres/Les Chalumeaux and in Blagny: Sous le Dos d'Ane) and no fewer than 5 hectares of Grands Crus (Chevalier Montrachet, Batard Montrachet, Bienvenues Batard Montrachet).

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