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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.3 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 24 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by BradE on 2/23/2024: Jon's 50th Friday Night Dinner: Age appropriate, and once it opened up it was very good. A beautiful accompaniment to the smoked salmon, which amplified the wine greatly. (241 views) | | | Tasted by shifter on 2/16/2024 & rated 92 points: Jon's 50th Birthday Dinner: Opened for an hour. This took some coaxing to come around. A bit clipped and one dimensional at first, but with the gougères, it really popped and brought out the acid backbone. (294 views) | | | Tasted by tinybubbles on 2/9/2021 & rated 92 points: Good texture and weight to this bottle. Some variability with these at this point, but this was in good shape. (1195 views) | | | Tasted by tinybubbles on 5/27/2020 & rated 93 points: Rounded yellow fruits, beginning to dry. Glossy midpalate. Drink now. 93- (1257 views) | | | Tasted by tinybubbles on 5/5/2020 & rated 93 points: Dry citrus notes. Overall quite clean bottle. Smooth mouthfeel. 93-94 (1249 views) | | | Tasted by fcxj on 10/10/2019 & rated 94 points: Yellow gold. Sappy, sweet aromatics. Quite ripe on palate. Botrytis. (1443 views) | | | Tasted by Burgnick on 6/21/2019 & rated 92 points: In magnum. Sesame, tropical fruit and minerals on the nose. Palate was ripe with round yellow fruit with good power. The vintage’s ripeness overshadowed the wine’s acidity. A good chevalier but not up to Ann Leflaive’s best gig during this period. (1590 views) | | | Tasted by tinybubbles on 1/29/2019 & rated 92 points: Intact but a softer expression overall. Lacked the level of intensity that the '92 can still show. But good for a '90. (914 views) | | | Tasted by fcxj on 12/19/2017 & rated 94 points: AT Xmas. Takes time to build, but with an hour in the glass it's a powerful, flavorful and palate staining. Some initial off-odors suggesting TCA that blew off to reveal nuanced caramel notes. (1332 views) | | | Tasted by steinersing on 1/15/2016 & rated 93 points: nose almost closed, but wine shows great elegance and poise . (2397 views) | | | Tasted by steinersing on 11/20/2015 & rated 95 points: quite youthful still - hints of evolution only even though the material seems quite ripe. Holds up very well. (2217 views) | | | Tasted by etyc on 11/13/2015: Wow, what an exemplary & aristocratic nose. Layered palate. Very fresh with a long finish. This was the white wine of the night as well as wine of the night (save for the port) for most... (2165 views) | | | Tasted by Sleepy Dave on 11/13/2015: Sheer class and magnificent!
The superb deep aromas suck you in with lemon, chrysanthemum, complex cool spices, almond nut and mineral w a touch of brûlée. So perfume! WOW, real wow. It coated the palate with layers of flavors, umami complexity yet so weightless. Pure silkiness. So sweet and saline, building up nicely on the palate with refined backbone. Crystalline focus and precision. Never ending finish with lingering soft spices. Simply superb. White wine couldn't get better than this. Zen like. (920 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 10/17/2015 & rated 93 points: Champagne and Burgundy Dinner (42 Grams - Chicago IL): Served in a great Chevalier flight. Ripe stone fruit with intense spice. Very rich throughout. Less textures and nuance vs the 1991 in the next glass. This was most interesting when first served, then seemed to get slightly shorter with more time in glass. (2618 views) | | | Tasted by nikos on 10/17/2015: 42 Grams (42 Grams): Rich and powerful. Lacked signature Chevalier nose to me but still great bottle of wine. Very deep and no sign of aging. (2395 views) | | | Tasted by Paul S on 5/4/2015 & rated 93 points: A Tribute to Anne-Claude Leflaive (Iggy's, Hilton Hotel, Singapore): The first of two wines made during the early years of Anne-Claude Leflaive’s tenure at the helm of the Domaine (the other being the 1992 later in the flight) – this was made in tandem with her cousin, Olivier Leflaive. You could clearly tell the difference between these wines and the ones that spanned the Anne-Claude / Pierre Morey years that followed, when the Domaine moved into organic than biodynamic wine-making in the mid-1990s. These earlier wines seemed rather warmer and broader, richer, but rather less intellectual – perhaps exchanging a bit of the intense drive and precision of the later wines with more deliciousness and generosity. I found them no less enjoyable or engaging though. The 1990 was a delicious wine. It had such a gorgeous nose, very floral and perfumed, with lots of yellow-fruited notes – pineapples, peach, a hint of kumquat, all packed together with little savoury tones of earth, white meat and boiled nuts. A rich, warm, very giving bouquet. Lovely stuff. The palate had a surprising amount of lovely, bright acidity for its vintage, with juicy, lemony streaks running through buttery notes and ripe red apple flavours, all suffused with a warm spiciness that filled the mid and back-palate. Really yummy stuff. While it did not have the same breathtaking dance of intensity and finesse that some of other wines had, there was certainly no lack of clarity and focus here, with the wine being held in lovely balance all the way into a rich, broad finish of honey, nuts and spices. If I could describe this wine in one word, it would be “delicious”. A really nice one, drinking well too. (2189 views) | | | Tasted by tinybubbles on 2/27/2015 & rated 90 points: From magnum from domaine. Jackfruit and wet rocks on the nose yield to a flatish palate with still noticeable acid. Lacks both the depth and breadth that I would expect from this wine. (1211 views) | | | Tasted by reichken on 5/25/2013 & rated 95 points: This was drunk side by side with 1990 coche perrieres and I have to say this leflaive pipped the coche ( can't remember last time I said that) but this bottle was in great shape, wine was clean, had a great line to it , delicious buttery corn, a bit of leflaive gun smoke and very long (1963 views) | | | Tasted by -E- on 3/1/2013 flawed bottle: Leflaive vertikal: (Blind) Klar, gyllen gul. Fersken og marsipan på nese med svakt hint av oliven. Kjølig, stringent frukt med svært tørr og lett bitter utgang. Dør i glasset. Ox (2807 views) | | | Tasted by lepetitchateau on 5/5/2011 & rated 96 points: Totally delicious wine - on the palate this shows amazing minerality and stony density, and sophisticated sweetness. A lovely wine but perhaps not the greatest complexity in a wine ever. (2579 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 2/12/2011 & rated 91 points: La Paulee Gala (New York, NY): Very mature and ripe fruit on both nose and palate, mostly stone fruit with some tropical hints. Very rich but not as intense and nuanced as a great Grand Cru should come across. (3013 views) | | | Tasted by Le Musigny on 12/3/2010: Awesome bottle! this just rocked. We had the 86, 89, and 99 in the afternoon and this bottle was the best of the bunch. This went up against the 90 Raveneau Les Clos and both were great but my preference was for the leflaive. (2326 views) | | | Tasted by 60ouvrees on 12/24/2006: (Truffle Dinner, Dec. 1, 2006)
Unbelievable bottle. One of the best wines I've ever had. Complexity, structure depth. This wine is firing on all cylinders. Profound. (2297 views) |
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Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBurgundy Les vins de Bourgogne (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne) (and in English)
Burgundy - The province of eastern France, famous for its red wines produced from Pinot Noir and its whites produced from Chardonnay. (Small of amounts of Gamay and Aligoté are still grown, although these have to be labeled differently.) The most famous part of the region is known as the Cote d'Or (the Golden Slope). It is divided into the Cote de Beaune, south of the town of Beaune (famous principally for its whites), and the Cote de Nuits, North of Beaune (home of the most famous reds). In addition, the Cote Chalonnaise and the Maconnais are important wine growing regions, although historically a clear level (or more) below the Cote d'Or. Also included by some are the regions of Chablis and Auxerrois, farther north.
Burgundy Report | Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne - na stejné téma od Heleny Baker
# 2013 Vintage Notes:
* "2013 is a vintage that 20 years ago would have been a disaster." - Will Lyons
* "low yields and highly variable reds, much better whites." - Bill Nanson
* "Virtually all wines were chaptalised, with a bit of sugar added before fermentation to increase the final alcohol level." - Jancis Robinson
# 2014 Vintage Notes:
"We have not had such splendid harvest weather for many years. This will ensure high quality (fragrant, classy and succulent are words already being used) across the board, up and down the hierarchy and well as consistently from south to north geographically apart from those vineyards ravaged by the hail at the end of June." - Clive Coates
# 2015 Vintage Notes:
"Low yields and warm weather allowed for ample ripeness, small berries and an early harvest. Quality is looking extremely fine, with some people whispering comparisons with the outstanding 2005 vintage. Acid levels in individual wines may be crucial." - Jancis Robinson
# 2017 Vintage Notes:
"Chablis suffered greatly from frost in 2017, resulting in very reduced volumes. As ever, the irony seems to be that what remains is very good quality, as it is in the Côte d’Or. Cooler nights across the region have resulted in higher-than-usual acidity, with good conditions throughout the harvest season allowing for ripe, healthy fruit." - Jancis Robinson
# 2018 Vintage Notes:
"The most successful region for red Burgundy in 2018 was the Côte de Beaune. The weather was ideal in this area, with just enough sunlight and rain to produce perfectly balanced wines naturally." - Vinfolio
Côte de Beaune
Côte de Beaune (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne)
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