1992 Domaine Leflaive Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 94.6 points

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  1/1/2024 - englishman's claret wrote: 98 Points

  The 1992 Leflaive Bienvenues Batard Montrachet is a stunning wine, sitting at that perfect inflection point between youth and maturity. Followed for 3 hours, this does nothing but expand and cultivate additional nuance. The nose provides pleasure enough with fresh lemon peel, yuzu, cordite, and mineral but on the palate this is amazingly expansive, the above accented by clover honey and a subtle almond, buttery element. This just fans out across the palate with a bottom-slope weight but no heaviness (and certainly no dearth of acidity). White Burgundy may be the most coquettish, inconsistent of temptations but bottles like this…

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  5/19/2023 - lepetitchateau wrote: 96 Points

  Stunningly good wine - nutty and sweet, long and simply divine. Had a complex marmalade nose, showing herbal depth.

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  9/3/2022 - Bullethead Likes this wine: 96 Points

  This was better than the 1992 BM. Nose has distinct honeycomb, dried flowers and creamy cake aromas. Palate is complex, rich, minerals, buttery and have great acidity to balance out. Will try head to head between BM and BBM next time.

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  5/8/2021 - fclarity wrote: 97 Points

  From a great looking bottle with a 2 com fill, this wine had a deep yellow center and clear rims. The medium+ intensity nose offered up citrus, pineapple, minerals, and white flowers.
  
  In the mouth, this wine was quite ripe but was firmly backed by crisp, integrated acidity. These two components were somewhat separated during the first hour of air but gradually integrated with time. It had gorgeous complexity and great length.
  
  This wine is just entering its drinking zone and should provide great enjoyment over the next 10 years. I see no reason to defer gratification with this wine.

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  2/2/2019 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Not nearly as impressive as another recent bottle. Reasonable midpalate but beginning to tire on the finish. Bottle to bottle

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