Community Tasting Notes 18

• Burgundy Al wrote:

  March 1, 2024 - La Paulée de Los Angeles - The Verticals (Maybourne Hotel - Beverly Hills CA): Vertical. I expect there were some better bottles of this wine opened tonight, but this bottle was lackluster and tired, at best.

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• drwine2001 wrote:

  March 1, 2024 - Wines Tasted at the La Paulée Verticals Session (The Maybourne, Beverly Hills): Healthy yellow color. Nothing but wood on the nose. Sweet, exotic, rich entry, excellent soil, good acidity. Then, a harsh, bitter, woody finish. None of the Leflaive Pulignys were completely right, and they all seemed clumsy and mixed up.

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• Burgundy Al wrote:

  June 24, 2022 - Musique & Vin Festival BYO Dinner (Château de Meursault): Small glass. Clearly reduced, so impossible to assess in the time allowed at this fast-paced dinner. But certainly enough fresh fruit still here, in a vintage where many wines lost all freshness years ago.

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• Paul S wrote: 94 points

  November 13, 2019 - Clos St Jacques Dinner (Gunther's, Purivs Street, Singapore): A really, really nice 2005 white Chez Leflaive. The nose was classic Leflaive, with ripe yellow fruit touched with whiffs of smoky flint, mineral and matchsticks. It was rich, ripe and sweet on the palate as one would expect from a 2005, but still very nicely balanced and defined, with sweet yellow fruited tones underlined with a beautiful bit of flint and chalky mineral, decent acidity, and then some nice spice notes stretching into superbly long, full, satisfying finish. A voluptuous wine - tons of luscious buttery depth and Grand Cru-like power - yet still beautifully controlled. Bravo. Absolutely delicious stuff, drinking nicely now, but this should age effortlessly as well.

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• MaxSiegel Likes this wine: 95 points

  October 16, 2019 - The winner in a horizontal of the 2005 Leflaive premier crus. Opens quickly with a rich, toasty, reductive nose. Lots of fruit but also an intriguing touch of mushroom. Palate is lusciously fruity but very well balanced, with mineral and some Champagne-like brioche notes. Bigger than the Folatieres but also more refined and complete. Not quite as spicy as the Pucelles. Quite a long finish. So much concentration without a hint of heaviness.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type White
• Producer Domaine Leflaive
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Les Combettes
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Beaune
• Appellation Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru

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• Pending Delivery 5 (1%)
• In Cellars 200 (51%)
• Consumed 188 (48%)

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