April 11, 2024 - Chiseled reduction, lots of bodied fruit content, very stylistic. 92
April 7, 2024 - Still very young and with very high acidity at first. After 1-2 hours slow ox and higher temperature the wine starts to open up. I would probably hold for another 2-3 years before this is at its peak.
August 28, 2023 - Lemon peel, apples, nuts, oak. To begin with the wine seemed rather stringent and not so giving, however, the wine got a lot better with air (30-40 minutes in the glass). To me the wine showed masterful balance between oak, acidity and volume. Entering its drinking window now.
2023-2028.
92-93p.
August 14, 2023 - Typique du domaine, un vin de la Côte de Beaune:
-empreint de finesse, assez droit qui nous amène parfois sur Chablis
-de niveau supérieur, facilement 1er cru
L’élevage est présent mais bien dosé. Le vin est très équilibré. Excellent.
August 5, 2023 - Showed better on second day at which point it revealed lime curd, butter, toasted hazelnut. With some air and warmth, tangerine oil and something a almost tropical.
It’s very good… but I can’t help but feel it’s lacking something. A 2020 Sauzet PM resonated a touch more.
June 26, 2023 - Wow. Quel beau villages, assez complexe, floral, fruits blancs, intense, tendu, salin, mineral, très belle longueur pour le niveau, superbe vin. 93-94
Great wine, intense flavours, saline, mineral, complexe, great backbone and finesse, long delicious finish.
May 25, 2023 - Butter floral nose. A bit more of the struck match than the BB served just before it. Palate actually less intense than the BB. The winemaker thought this bottle was a bit closed. 90
April 30, 2023 - Delicious and nicely balanced wine, but seeing the price this is trading for right now, I'd be a hard pass on buying more. There are plenty of more exciting white burg options for less $$ in my opinion.
November 1, 2022 - One of the 4 btls in the Omakase lunch in Aoki Restaurant in the Bund. Great food with great friends and wines.
July 26, 2022 - Out of Magnum and that's probably the right size for a wine this satisfying. This is just flat-out delicious Chardonnay with world-class balance and concentration, and this dry extract and drive that Leflaive shows up and down the range in '17. This has a long runway ahead but it's impossible not to love now.