A mature and quite lactic nose with butterscotch, cashew, cream, pear, bitter almonds, and sherry notes that become less evident with air time. At first the nose came across a little tired, but it freshened up some with air time. Mid to full bodied, forward, and beautifully proportioned. Deep, yet with good lift and a sense of chalkiness and power without weight. The palate is fresher than the nose with excellent cut, a sense of stony/chalkiness, and breadth without any heaviness. I suspect this was better a couple years ago. Excellent with popcorn with white truffle salt. Drink up.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Casual Burg Dinner with Friends (The Bristol - Chicago IL): Lush, ripe apple and pear aromas with some sweet baking spice. Similar on palate with some peach as well and good concentration. Forward and slightly advanced, probably at its peak now. Perhaps the best I recall from this wine. Leflaive 2004s have often been good or great, but also often inconsistent.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No
/ Comment
Femenine Sense of Wines (Cuenllas - Madrid): A green pepper splash! Yeastie, yeastie. Reduced to my taste. Woody indeed. Oxidation? Well don't think it is here but seems very young. With time sunflowers seeds and a little sweetness of honey, pears A serious complexity is showed Lovely.
¡Bofetada de pimientos verdes! A levadura-levadura. Para mi reducida. Amaderada sin duda. ¿Oxidación? No lo creo aquí pero parece muy joven. Con tiempo pipas y un poco de dulzura con miel, peras. Muestra una complejidad seria. Muy rica.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Popped and poured. not nearly as good as another bottle from earlier this year. Mature and ripe apple aromas with some peach, some new oak spice. More precise and lean on palate, much more enjoyable than the nose, with ripe apple along with lots of lemon and lemon zest. Moderate intensity and concentration.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
A lot of floral and herbal elements at the onset…it did get better with time in the glass, but thought it could use more lift on the backend…solid 93 pts for me.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Really very lovely, poised, precise and quintessential leflaive. White flowers, citrus, some honey. Plenty opf high notes. May well be at peak hedonistic enjoyment right now, though I suspect that it will become intellectually more intriguing with time. At this age, no point in letting pox influence the way you think about when to open those... it's either shot or it's not...
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Some Burgundy with Dinner (GT Fish & Oyster - Chicago IL): Very floral start with good spice, still showing some new oak. Peach aromas to start with a hint of pear as well. A bit leaner on palate, also showing pear as well as lemon and lime. Good power and intensity. Much better and more balanced than I remember from when tasted several times shortly after release.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
White Burgundy tasting @ (Rotterdam, Netherlands): Again a blind wine, which showed a medium intense yellow core, with a clearing rim and a golden tinge. The medium-plus intense nose shows clear signs of evolution, with notes of sweet & ripe -even honeyed- fruits, but also savoury dried herbs and further hearty, umami-like undercurrents. The wine is medium-plus bodied and shows medium-plus acidity, which doesn’t quite get adequate opposition from medium intense flavours of dried green herbs, burnt nuts and faint caramel; even more so since -other than some distant white peach- they are somewhat devoid of fruit. It must however be noted that the oak is well integrated, as witnessed by an absence of phenolics. With above caveat in mind, the finish still manages 20-25 seconds worth of precarious balance, as it is here that the ends are definitely starting to fray. Quite frankly, I gauged this wine as past its best and showing signs of the dreaded p’ox, so I wasn’t too surprised when it was revealed as Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru “Folatières” 2004 – Domaine Leflaive. My verdict was 87 points and to drink up before it deteriorates further, but -surprise, surprise- this wine did a complete and utter 180 on our unsuspecting asses. After three hours and 30 minutes in the fridge, it turned into a nervously-styled, concentrated, precise and complex Puligny, which was probably closer to 93 points than my earlier score. Reduction can be quite the bitch!.............................. TN Mike de Lange.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Burgundy blowout with John Arnold (Chez Bruce, London): Tight nose, laser-like focus; citrus fruit notes, especially of mandarin essence, developed over an hour as it sat in the glass, nice minerality, very good length, a delicious wine with upside potential.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Not POX issue here. My wife qualified the nose as "pop-corn" and this captures it fairly well. Very leflaive in style. Some toast and butter. Has improved since last time i tried it. Beautiful palate but might not be obviously Puligny in style (might have said meursault?): pretty broad and intense with white flowers and nice fruit. Has improved a lot since the last bottle i opened. A clear success though might not be worth the entry ticket?
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Very enjoyable. Smoky note over lemon and stone nose. The palate is balanced with decent intensity, flavours of lemon rind and almond; very good finish maybe even long finish. Perfect with scallops.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Needs much more time. Decanted for an hour but still felt some sulfur and oak. Long and intense so should get there eventually. Still very primary color so premox not a real issue. If you do drink it now, make sure to decant for 1-2h and serve in proper glasses.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Domaine Leflaive Dinner (Chicago, IL): Some sulfur notes - is this the norm for '04 Leflaive? Yellow citrus. Lighter palate. Somewhat raw structure. OK.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Very good to say the least. Spot on right now. Stones, bright fruit, flowers and a lot of lovely texture. Might improve but it is very lovely at present.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Bought a month ago, travelled across country with me and served 5 days later. Very nice showing. Acacia flowers, citrus, a little stone fruit on the nose, with a nicely round, large mouth-filling and delicious follow, showing mineral, light toast and a long finish. Well done, holding form for several hours. 2004 White Burgundies continue to show well. My first Folatieres, will buy another.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
The Finest Burgundy Domains: The Classical 2004 (Caveau): Gold. Very typical baygon, almonds, cashew nose. Also reminds me of Indian shop scents...not sure why....maybe indian flowers? Nuts galore with fresh acidity. Excellent mouthfeel that is juicy, rich, opulent and buttery. Medium to long finish.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Vinum 2004 Burgundy Tasting (Caveau, Singapore): I came to this wine with high expectations - a 1er Cru from Leflaive no less - but was rather let down. Pale gold colour. One swirl, one sniff and I got hit with loads and loads of oak, roasted almonds and peanut brittle with a hint of coconut. Some floral top-notes appeared after quite a bit of time, but otherwise, the nose just held that nutty, buttery, caramel profile. As would be expected from a Puligny, the palate was certainly fat, rich and opulent in a buttery, creamy way. Lots of acid as well, but this appeared quite tart rather than being a good counter-balance to the weight of the wine. In fairness, the tartness lessened wth some time, but the palate always seemed rather all-over-the-place and quite unintegrated. The one thing that I really liked about the wine was its finish, which was extremely long and classy, at once juicy and fat, and yet resolving in an extremely seamless and satisfying fashion with the flavours lingering and lingering with just a little hint of spice as the wine wound down. This wine is not showing well at the moment. I have no doubt it will improve with time, although I am not sure it will ever improve enough to be a great wine - certainly not one I would open at the moment though.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
3/19/2020 - cct wrote: 92 Points
Pop and poured, drunk over 3 hours.
A mature and quite lactic nose with butterscotch, cashew, cream, pear, bitter almonds, and sherry notes that become less evident with air time. At first the nose came across a little tired, but it freshened up some with air time. Mid to full bodied, forward, and beautifully proportioned. Deep, yet with good lift and a sense of chalkiness and power without weight. The palate is fresher than the nose with excellent cut, a sense of stony/chalkiness, and breadth without any heaviness. I suspect this was better a couple years ago. Excellent with popcorn with white truffle salt. Drink up.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
11/6/2016 - fcxj wrote: 84 Points
Very developed... should it be so?
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
9/1/2016 - Burgnick wrote: flawed
Premox
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
4/28/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Casual Burg Dinner with Friends (The Bristol - Chicago IL): Lush, ripe apple and pear aromas with some sweet baking spice. Similar on palate with some peach as well and good concentration. Forward and slightly advanced, probably at its peak now. Perhaps the best I recall from this wine. Leflaive 2004s have often been good or great, but also often inconsistent.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
3/20/2013 - Harley1199 wrote:
Femenine Sense of Wines (Cuenllas - Madrid): A green pepper splash!
Yeastie, yeastie. Reduced to my taste. Woody indeed.
Oxidation? Well don't think it is here but seems very young.
With time sunflowers seeds and a little sweetness of honey, pears
A serious complexity is showed
Lovely.
¡Bofetada de pimientos verdes!
A levadura-levadura. Para mi reducida. Amaderada sin duda.
¿Oxidación? No lo creo aquí pero parece muy joven.
Con tiempo pipas y un poco de dulzura con miel, peras.
Muestra una complejidad seria.
Muy rica.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
12/2/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 89 Points
Popped and poured. not nearly as good as another bottle from earlier this year. Mature and ripe apple aromas with some peach, some new oak spice. More precise and lean on palate, much more enjoyable than the nose, with ripe apple along with lots of lemon and lemon zest. Moderate intensity and concentration.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
11/14/2012 - rnellans wrote: 93 Points
A lot of floral and herbal elements at the onset…it did get better with time in the glass, but thought it could use more lift on the backend…solid 93 pts for me.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
7/15/2012 - don_quichotte wrote: 92 Points
Really very lovely, poised, precise and quintessential leflaive. White flowers, citrus, some honey. Plenty opf high notes. May well be at peak hedonistic enjoyment right now, though I suspect that it will become intellectually more intriguing with time. At this age, no point in letting pox influence the way you think about when to open those... it's either shot or it's not...
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
5/23/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Some Burgundy with Dinner (GT Fish & Oyster - Chicago IL): Very floral start with good spice, still showing some new oak. Peach aromas to start with a hint of pear as well. A bit leaner on palate, also showing pear as well as lemon and lime. Good power and intensity. Much better and more balanced than I remember from when tasted several times shortly after release.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
4/19/2012 - Barry Rothof wrote: 93 Points
White Burgundy tasting @ (Rotterdam, Netherlands): Again a blind wine, which showed a medium intense yellow core, with a clearing rim and a golden tinge. The medium-plus intense nose shows clear signs of evolution, with notes of sweet & ripe -even honeyed- fruits, but also savoury dried herbs and further hearty, umami-like undercurrents. The wine is medium-plus bodied and shows medium-plus acidity, which doesn’t quite get adequate opposition from medium intense flavours of dried green herbs, burnt nuts and faint caramel; even more so since -other than some distant white peach- they are somewhat devoid of fruit. It must however be noted that the oak is well integrated, as witnessed by an absence of phenolics. With above caveat in mind, the finish still manages 20-25 seconds worth of precarious balance, as it is here that the ends are definitely starting to fray. Quite frankly, I gauged this wine as past its best and showing signs of the dreaded p’ox, so I wasn’t too surprised when it was revealed as Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru “Folatières” 2004 – Domaine Leflaive. My verdict was 87 points and to drink up before it deteriorates further, but -surprise, surprise- this wine did a complete and utter 180 on our unsuspecting asses. After three hours and 30 minutes in the fridge, it turned into a nervously-styled, concentrated, precise and complex Puligny, which was probably closer to 93 points than my earlier score. Reduction can be quite the bitch!.............................. TN Mike de Lange.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
9/30/2011 - darvid wrote:
2004 Vintage Burgundy Tasting and Oxidation Check (Part 1) (BLT Fish, New York City): Brilliant, classical. Fuller and riper than other high-acid vintages of Leflaive Puligny (the ‘96s come to mind) but with great balance and poise. Very fine now and seems on track to be hauntingly good in just a couple of years.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
2/17/2011 - Captain Haddock Likes this wine: 92 Points
Burgundy blowout with John Arnold (Chez Bruce, London): Tight nose, laser-like focus; citrus fruit notes, especially of mandarin essence, developed over an hour as it sat in the glass, nice minerality, very good length, a delicious wine with upside potential.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
11/9/2010 - don_quichotte wrote: 92 Points
Not POX issue here. My wife qualified the nose as "pop-corn" and this captures it fairly well. Very leflaive in style. Some toast and butter. Has improved since last time i tried it. Beautiful palate but might not be obviously Puligny in style (might have said meursault?): pretty broad and intense with white flowers and nice fruit. Has improved a lot since the last bottle i opened. A clear success though might not be worth the entry ticket?
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
7/28/2010 - Milos wrote: 92 Points
Very enjoyable. Smoky note over lemon and stone nose. The palate is balanced with decent intensity, flavours of lemon rind and almond; very good finish maybe even long finish. Perfect with scallops.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
11/26/2009 - don_quichotte wrote: 89 Points
Needs much more time. Decanted for an hour but still felt some sulfur and oak. Long and intense so should get there eventually. Still very primary color so premox not a real issue. If you do drink it now, make sure to decant for 1-2h and serve in proper glasses.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
10/15/2009 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Domaine Leflaive Tasting and Dinner (Knightsbridge - Northbrook IL): Also a bit reductive, but not as much so as the 2004 Clavaillon. Somewhat restrained for Leflaive, mostly showing lemon with flowers and modest spice. Moderate length.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
10/15/2009 - psmith wrote:
Domaine Leflaive Dinner (Chicago, IL): Some sulfur notes - is this the norm for '04 Leflaive? Yellow citrus. Lighter palate. Somewhat raw structure. OK.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
9/5/2009 - jimbomatic wrote: 91 Points
Very good to say the least. Spot on right now. Stones, bright fruit, flowers and a lot of lovely texture. Might improve but it is very lovely at present.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
8/11/2009 - City Wine Journal wrote: 93 Points
Bought a month ago, travelled across country with me and served 5 days later. Very nice showing. Acacia flowers, citrus, a little stone fruit on the nose, with a nicely round, large mouth-filling and delicious follow, showing mineral, light toast and a long finish. Well done, holding form for several hours. 2004 White Burgundies continue to show well. My first Folatieres, will buy another.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
7/20/2008 - Alex H wrote: 86 Points
The Finest Burgundy Domains: The Classical 2004 (Caveau): Gold. Very typical baygon, almonds, cashew nose. Also reminds me of Indian shop scents...not sure why....maybe indian flowers? Nuts galore with fresh acidity. Excellent mouthfeel that is juicy, rich, opulent and buttery. Medium to long finish.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
7/19/2008 - Paul S wrote: 88 Points
Vinum 2004 Burgundy Tasting (Caveau, Singapore): I came to this wine with high expectations - a 1er Cru from Leflaive no less - but was rather let down. Pale gold colour. One swirl, one sniff and I got hit with loads and loads of oak, roasted almonds and peanut brittle with a hint of coconut. Some floral top-notes appeared after quite a bit of time, but otherwise, the nose just held that nutty, buttery, caramel profile. As would be expected from a Puligny, the palate was certainly fat, rich and opulent in a buttery, creamy way. Lots of acid as well, but this appeared quite tart rather than being a good counter-balance to the weight of the wine. In fairness, the tartness lessened wth some time, but the palate always seemed rather all-over-the-place and quite unintegrated. The one thing that I really liked about the wine was its finish, which was extremely long and classy, at once juicy and fat, and yet resolving in an extremely seamless and satisfying fashion with the flavours lingering and lingering with just a little hint of spice as the wine wound down. This wine is not showing well at the moment. I have no doubt it will improve with time, although I am not sure it will ever improve enough to be a great wine - certainly not one I would open at the moment though.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment