Leflaive Puligny Montrachet les Pucelles 1er Cru 1999 750ml

Burghound.com/ Tasted: Jul 29, 2011
A touch of reduction cannot completely hide the Intense honeysuckle fruit framed in touch of spicy oak that precede the elegant and pure full-bodied, slightly sweet and beautifully detailed flavors of citrus and apricots all wrapped in a surprisingly strong mineral framework. This is not especially dense but it is impeccably balanced with impressive length and a fine, almost delicate acid structure. There is real elegance here and a certain very appealing nervosite - moreover, this remains quite fresh and youthful and while for my taste it has reached its peak, there is no rush to drink up, indeed it should be quite enjoyable over the next decade. Tasted many times with largely 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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