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Saturday, March 11, 2023 - We brought this to dinner at Marcel's. As usual, the food was outstanding, but this wine was the best part of the evening. I love Leflaive and expected the wine to be excellent, but it exceeded my high expectations. It had an entrancing bouquet, a complex melange of fruity and floral that in itself gave pleasure, but which also almost compelled you to take a sip. Sweet fruit on entry. Very complex, with good structure -- full-bodied without being heavy. Overall, in the mouth the wine was richer than usual even for a good white burgundy, but still crisp and refined. I'm not great at picking out individual flavors in a wine, and I suspect some wine writing is mostly hyperbole anyway, so suffice it to say the wine was delicious. But the finish was the most extraordinary thing about this extraordinary wine -- it lasted and lasted, one of the longest finishes I've experience in a white wine. In summary, a great wine, just about as good as white burgundy gets, and virtually grand cru quality. Given the structure and Leflaive's track record, I suspect this wine will last quite a while longer, but there's no reason to wait -- it's fully mature, and I don't see how it could get better than it is today.

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