2017 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier-Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 96.6 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Mrbuzz's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/26/2024 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 97 Points

  It's been awhile since I've had a GC Leflaive, and a young version at that. Really looking forward to trying this one and it was a beauty! First nose..."DAMN SON...is this an Oregon Chard" I jokingly called out. Beautifully clean match strike reduction with a hit of citrus, dried candied fruits, caramel corn...Mmmmmm Leflaive! So rich and intense with flavor, yet there was this crispness and weightlessness to it. Bright and energized lemon/tangerine citrus squeeze...tropical grilled pineapple, sauteed apples...again with all great chards for me...that dry extract, the white flower, crushed rock minerality...salty and waxy...such purity and balance...elegantly full bodied. I just loved it! Wish I could put this in my current tuesday weekly rotation! ;-)

  2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View aquacongas's profile
  • Report Issue

  10/21/2023 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 98 Points

  blind
  I like all wines from Leflaive from 2017. Fine, elegant and powerful likewise. Nice way of reduction. Some popcorn, but creamier than for e.g. Roulot or CD. 98

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View aquacongas's profile
  • Report Issue

  9/16/2023 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 98 Points

  blind
  I guessed Leflaive BM. I love this nose, some nuts, reductive, discreet popcorn. Everything in balance. Very good stage to drink it now. 98-99

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Papies's profile
  • Report Issue

  6/10/2023 - Papies wrote: 94 Points

  A pre-50 pre Birthday Celebration; 6/9/2023-6/11/2023 (Around Zurich Area): Tasted blind and was the selection of the Sommelier of Taverne Zum Schafli, Wigoltingen. We went for 5yr old Puligny-Montrachet from a semi modernist like Lucien Le Moine as the smoky/toasty oak was very much in the forefront. And there lies for us the issue with this wine at this stage and hence our 94 in what otherwise is a magnificent wine. The toasty oak and the bright citrus render the wine a touch one dimensional and rob it of the magic. We feel this needs another 3-5 years to shed this and then will be hopefully in the higher 90s . Great to see the premox issues behind this great estate. 93-94

  3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Ben Christiansen's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/27/2023 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  More bright and focused and bright and crisp.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

View all 16 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.