Slightly more advanced than ideal, perhaps flirting with premox. But the wine holds up well, and the vanilla pod/honey/white flower notes keep reverberating throughout the night. Wonderful and astounding performance.
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After reading some of the notes about this 2019 ex domaine batch, I must admit I was somewhat nervous ahead of opening the bottle given the occasion at stake.
Thankfully, it was only slightly advanced and the vanilla pod nose keep on growing through the evening and it was mesmerisingly good.
Palate was buttery and honey depicting a well matured PM burg.
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Complex aromatics of struck match, custard apple, fennel and white peach. It has rich, dense, sappy orchard fruits that stain the palate. The base is super chalky and length imposing. Simply superb!
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Frustratingly this 2019-ex domaine Leflaive reconditioned Batard Montrachet is advanced and is heading towards premox route at a fast pace. Mature profile of ripe apricots, orchard fruits and ripe tropical fruits. Terrific vanilla oak and spiced backbone. This bottle is at its peak and going downhill. Hopefully the rest of the bottles from the case will be better. (86/100)
There is a lot of material here but it's a bit disjointed with the acidity dominating. It did come together some with long air time and showed fine flavors of lemon and clove along with hints of butterscotch and buttered popcorn on the concentrated finish. My friend who brought this had to throw out the first bottle due to Premox which is par for the course. The second bottle seems to need more time but that remains a risk not worth taking in my book as these wines can turn Premox almost overnight. Still, a good rather than great vintage of Leflaive Batard under any light.
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This came into balance with air and as it warmed in the glass. Pretty, youthful lemon-gold color. Fairly generous, sweet, tropical nose, bit of oak. Relatively simple and linear palate, tropical, rich and warm. Nice acidity. Short. Showing its class but not great.
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Brought, along with a 2004 Raveneau Butteaux, to drink with friends Thursday night at the Acker Auction held at Le Bernardin Prive. Popped and tasted.... Light gold color, relatively tight nose showing some yellow fruit a little funk but appeared to be a sound bottle and was a little warm. They put it on ice and we moved on to some champagnes 96 DP, and 96 Oneo, 08 Grand Anne, 08 Cristal rose.....
By the time we returned to some taste some whites, the Rav was just opening up but sadly the Batard, which should have been a baby at 15 years old, now showed some oxidative notes which blemished the wine. Although drinkable, unfortunately this is just is another confirmation to me that this wine is no longer the consistent, long aging, benchmark GC it was up to the 1996 vintage. These need to be consumed much younger. They will never reach the same peak that great older bottles do
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Served blind, I was confounded by the oak. Every taster commented on the oak. I got some tropical notes at first too, but they subsided. When it was tropical I guessed 08, then moved toward 07. This is pretty backward and youthful, but given the vintage and producer do you really keep it around hoping for better?
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Pale gold color. Nose is a bit shy showing some hay, honeysuckle, lemon, and ginger notes. Palate equally shy at first with lime, ginger, and some toasted hazelnut notes. With work, I get a sense of the density of underlying material and there is a sap to this wine, for sure, but fireworks never go off. Holds overnight in the cellar and loses some of its energy on day two, as expected. The finish is shorter than I'd like for a Grand Cru of this age. Blind, a delicious wine. With the label showing, I remain disappointed with this knowing what I've tasted from other vintages over the years. Perhaps more patience will be rewarded - I've not had any oxidation problems in the first three bottles. Drink or hold.
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Theme: Musigny Grand Cru Tight, not expressive. Deep within there is white pepper perfume and some yellow fruits. Deeply layered, the flavours slowly strike on the palate, seamless. with hint of honey sweetness that accompany by the concentrated fruits yet with amazing ripe acidity for the focus and freshness. Definitely better than the previous bottles. Still long life ahead.
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Wow, 2004 seems to be a superlative year for white Burgs! This was quite a step-up from the '08 Carillon BBM, IMO... Nosed of exotic spices, smoke, honey. This was not a typical "fat" Batard, and I liked it alot for its tension, nervousness on the palate which was well-balanced with the fruits. Again, a fresh & long finish! Great!
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Butterscotch on the nose at first but it blew off with the second glass. Full-bodied and rich with delicious flavors of hazelnuts, lemon-peel and tropical fruits. There's good acidity underneath and the finish is quite suave and complex with notes of minerals, brown spices and classic Leflaive match stick. The table was torn between those who thought this needed more time and those who thought it was headed towards premox. In the end, it depends on the specific bottle, I guess but I'd vote for drinking this soon.
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Medium yellow-gold color. Aromas muted, but lemon and honeysuckle come to mind. Palate also closed down with slight hazelnut and toast followed by some butterscotch and lemon notes that carry into a short finish. No excitement here yet but maybe filling in some blanks from the first bottle sampled from this box a few years ago. Hold, but monitor for signs of decline.
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SLDS June 2017 #2: Blind. Smoke, lemon, flint, spice and floral notes. Great texture, the acidity zings across the palate and the fruit has great depth. Superb length and no surprise about its absolute quality when revealed.
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By Coravin,125ml @ 67 Pall Mall. From Magnum. Having recentrly tried the 2007 ( Papies 95) we jumped on the opportunity to compare. Very similar to the 2007,s till quite young and fresh but has less of oaky/puppy fat feel and shows a lot more complexity. Very elegant, nice depth but no way heavy , creamy and light spicy.Class act and very very good. 95
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Medium yellow. The nose is very nutty, ripe and oxidative. I don't know whether this is premox or just a very ripe style of wine making. To be revisited.
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Drank at La Trompette. Neither corked nor premox, but seemed disjointed at first, even after a double decant 12h earlier and generous time in the glass. In the end it was quite enjoyable with food, but this is not a wine I'd buy again at this price. NR
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At a White Horse Tavern in the north country: Brownish color - certainly much more so than previous bottles of Les Pucelles, is it just the difference of the vineyards or is something going on with this wine, as previous notes suggests? In the mouth minerals dominates along with citrus notes and you feel the underlying concentration a long with hints of oxidation. I am not sure where this is going...
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First bottle was premox. Second bottle - outstanding. And as always, opened up beautifully with an hour of air time, which should have been two or three hours.
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A nice but not great wine, still showing significant reduction, with pleasing but dominating matchstick aromas. With extended decant, some floral, ripe peach, and oaky spice notes emerge but this is a little disjointed. Fleshy, almost fat, on the palate, with less acidity than I prefer. Due to the latter I'd drink these sooner rather than later.
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Decades of Decadence - x4s: A little shy at first - rosemary and some light mint and after time it opened up more to show smoky sesame and wild florals. The palate is excellent from the start with real class, even with the Batard fruit weight it is beautifully driven thanks to the piercing acid core. Good texture and length to it, this will continue on a very nice path assuming no ox issues.
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Spurred on by notes here threatening premox, I opened one of these earlier than I had intended. The good news: No premox. The not so good news: My high expectations for a Grand Cru I suppose. Despite decanting for 8h the wine seemed a bit closed, it was a nice drink but did not display the multiple layers I had hoped for. In fact most Premier Cru's I have had fro the region I have scored higher than this. Have to hope the rest improve with time.
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Wines Tasted at HDH Auction (Tru - Chicago IL): Seriously ripe with charming floral notes to start. Lots of peach aromas and flavors and a unctuous, buttery character/ texture. Lots of pleasure today. Long and fat finish, and I'd err on the side of drinking these younger because of seemingly modest acidity.
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HDH auction tasting at Tru (Chicago, IL): Slight tinge of green. Nostril-singeing sulphur on the nose -- I joked that this was young Pruem. Notes of tropical citrus as well. Slight bit of coconut and very powerful on the palate with tons of citrus. Very, very judicious oak usage -- everything is in balance. Big and bold, but everything's held together by a powerful green laser.
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HDH Auction (Tru - Chicago, IL): Wait. Is this JJ Prum? No, it's just sulphured out the wazoo! Palate is still very young, but has nearly perfect composition. Wonderful concentration of lime, flint, pear, and lemon with sizzling acidity. Love the flinty notes, and sweet lemon character. Super chardonnay.
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Medium-pale yellow color. Muted aromas of butterscotch, lemon, and cooked corn. Palate is seemingly one-dimensional and shows very little, with corn, lemon, quince, and hints of butterscotch. No signs of oxidation, but nothing to excite in this bottle. Disappointing and judgement reserved. Resample in 12 months?
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A touch worriesome when first opened, I thought hints of premox. That blew off to a slightly reduced woody nose. Oily and viscous on the palate, with tremendous power and length. Exotic fruits, honeysuckle and jasmine. Very nice.
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Wow, this is so young still. Amazing aromas of smoke, mineral, gunflint... Medium to intense. On taste amazing balance and poise, with intensity. Flavors of sweet fruit, great mouthfeel, and an amazing haunting finish. The aromas and flavors lingered for ages. I still get the sense of it the next day. This is what Batard is about.
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Seems to be coming out of a phase, and evolving in a much better fashion - but still has yet to show the promise of the producer and vintage. At least there is no POX!
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I was hoping for more from this. On the nose it was quite powerful but not in a typically batard kind of way. Wondered if it might be slightly oxidised. This was drunk alongside a 2000 that was singing. Maybe didn't help as it was somewhat rushed and wasn't allowed the time it deserved to show more complexities.
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Alcohol :: 13.5% Bright golden. This was so tight and unyielding at first, even after being opened for 4hrs. Therefore I decide to let it sit in the glass. 2hrs later, BOOM! Such intriguing, seductive gingery spices, such harmony that I hardly dissect the aromas here. One word, think drop dead fragrance and complex. Medium - full bodied. This stunningly rich and complex yet remain great sense of harmony and elegance. This is so gorgeous that grows on the palate when it flows. Everything is perfectly poise. Again, this is such an energetic wine that has enormous drive and length that just wouldn't quit. Wow!
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Nose is earthy, malty on top of the apple, flower and vanilla notes. In the mouth there is apple, and crisp ripe pear and considerable weight. Very, very long slightly saline finish. Spectacular!
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When it first opened it was throwing off all kinds of notes of reduction and over use of sulfur. The bottle had to sit over 2 hours to really bring out the power that 04 leflaive typically delivers. Powerful tropical fruit mixed in with slight reductive flavors, the palate is pretty intense, but the reductiveness throws it off a bit. Not sure how it's gonna evolve.
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Phew - this has worked out! After thue previous attempts, finally this wine is singing. Stunning nose, brimming with energy. There is tremendous reserve and power in this wine. (Chv Blc)
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Judgment of Singapore: Part 1 - Chardonnay and Syrah (Zeffir, Dunlop Street): A lovely wine. This was a real relief after three rather disappointing bottles Chardonnays. It had an entrancing nose, wafting out of the glass in drifts of smoky gunpowder and flint that floated around a core of ripe fruit tones - jackfruit almost - and then white peach and floral blossom aromas. Beautiful stuff. The palate was every bit as good. After the initial trio of slightly disjointed wines, this came across as a perfectly integrated and gracefully balanced wine, with a beautifully melting mouthful of pure apple flavours shading into sweeter stone fruit territory on the midpalate. There was a good depth of fruit here, perhaps not as outwardly powerful as one would expect from a Leflaive Grand Cru, let alone a Batard, but this was made up for by a brilliant sense of poise and focus, with lovely gobs of fresh, lemony acidity keeping the wine ever so lithe and elegant. Past the midpalate, the fruit was lined with wonderful in-seam of stony minerality, almost flinty as it rounded the corner into a long, powerful finish, where the wine stained the back-palate with layers of yellow fruit and mineral, before lingering with just a little lick of gunpowder right at its very tail. All in all, a beautiful drink. This may not be the longest lasting of Batards, but it is a classy drop that will make a rewarding drink from now and probably over the next decade or so. Overwhelmingly voted the Chardonnay of the night.
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Gorgeous apple fruit (pink lady, granny, starkin), hazlenuts, vanilla just a hint of butter and marzipan. Medium+ body, apples fighting with citrus fruits and nuts, vanilla, butter on the palate. Incredibly rich fruit and nut melange with a lovely mineral/citrus streak of acidity holding it together and balancing the heaviness (very slight touch of heat on the backend keeps this a 91 pointer rather than higher). 91
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Lots of minerality on the palate, but on the palate a disturbingly rough and tumble wine. Totally not interesting now, as the acid is forcing the wine out of balance - plus, a touch of POX on the nose... very concerning but I could not put a score on it and CLEARLY not a score as high as others have given it.
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Restrained power. Nutty and slightly reductive on the nose. Palate is broad and complex: slight citrus, honeysuckle, and some butter. Long and intense, but in a very refined way.
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we tasted this wine blind, and none of the experienced tasters guessed this wine to be a batard. chevalier was the first guess; as the wine had none of the clumsiness and brute power that most find in a batard. while powerful, the wine had intense concentration and focus. very linear in style. the telltale flintiness in leflaives was there, but you had to focus to pick it up. their was an intense oiliness on the nose, and a long finish that coated the palate. a great showing of this young wine.
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In the nose, the wine offers a stong citrus, stone and beeswax aromatic. The wine is powerful, but it lacks charm and elegance. This is a hard, masculine, steely style of wine that reminds me of 86 Bordeaux. While well made, it lacks pleasure. I wonder how this would fare in a blind tasting?
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This was relatively open yet dense and concentrated. It was a superb match to the broth and had intense peach fruits cut with some dried flowers, smoky minerals and lemon. It certainly has the power of Batard with a lovely cool fruit restraint.
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Another great showing for Leflaive with signature minerality. Quite delicate relative to the '96 and '04, it gained some midpalate weight with air. I'll be very curious to taste this again in a few years. Recommended
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Dinner at home with my friends George, Vassilis, Costas and my wife Marilena. Chilled and poured into the glasses. Light yellow color. Perfect nose full of butter, white flowers and peanuts on a lemony background. Totaly full - bodied with a velvety texture and discreet flavors of citrus, minerals, hazelnuts and honeyed banana. It was the ideal pairing for a pumpkin soup with chestnuts and black truffles. Excellent!!!
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Chilled and open it, then leave the bottle on the table for 1.30 hours before serving.
Strong scent of tropical fruit, a bit flinty, wood, smoke, not too much oak, very charming, deep and clean, dimensions. This is lively Batard and full-loaded of mineral, seductive too.
Well-balanced, beautifully dense, lovely tannic, yummy, almostb full-bodied, I love this stuff.
Nice finished. This is well-made and not too serious Chardonnay. Lovely wine indeed.
Drink now - 2020+
ps. I must find some graet wine from the normal vintage. Now I know what I really need. Good vintage white is too serious and difficult for my soul.
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Like the Bienvenue, this had a very pronounced oak char nose but it wasn't as distracting and the quality of the wine still shone through somewhat. Still, these young Leflaives have me worried.
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10/20/2023 - jlgnml wrote: 90 Points
Quite nice. Good nose, and palate feel. Lacking depth and finish.
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10/14/2023 - vinhslee Likes this wine: 96 Points
Slightly more advanced than ideal, perhaps flirting with premox. But the wine holds up well, and the vanilla pod/honey/white flower notes keep reverberating throughout the night. Wonderful and astounding performance.
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10/14/2023 - yangtoa Likes this wine: 90 Points
After reading some of the notes about this 2019 ex domaine batch, I must admit I was somewhat nervous ahead of opening the bottle given the occasion at stake.
Thankfully, it was only slightly advanced and the vanilla pod nose keep on growing through the evening and it was mesmerisingly good.
Palate was buttery and honey depicting a well matured PM burg.
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7/21/2023 - Sneakaway Likes this wine: 95 Points
Inouï. A parfaite maturité Aucun défaut. Forte stature. Un géant tendre et complexe !
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2/13/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Complex aromatics of struck match, custard apple, fennel and white peach. It has rich, dense, sappy orchard fruits that stain the palate. The base is super chalky and length imposing. Simply superb!
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10/13/2022 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Domaine Leflaive Dinner with Brice de La Morandière (Oriole - Chicago IL): Refurbished magnum from the Domaine. Lean and bright with a slightly herbal note, also a bit of lemon. Also maturing, but the density and structure are keeping this bright enough.
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10/12/2022 - dcwino wrote: flawed
Domaine Leflaive Dinner with Brice de La Morandière - DC Version (Officina - Washington D.C.): Directly from the Domaine and reconditioned. En magnum. Too dark and the nose reflex. IMO, premoxed or at least really tired. Still showing the 04 LBT taint, some may detect as strong pyrazine.
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3/31/2022 - fcxj wrote: flawed
Badly poxed, disappointed but not surprised.
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10/30/2021 - jwalkuro wrote: flawed
Premox. Loss of fruits character.
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7/26/2021 - aquacongas wrote: 92 Points
semiblind, 04, 06, 07
maybe not the best bottle, missing acidity. 92
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5/16/2021 - Jammy Wine wrote: 86 Points
Frustratingly this 2019-ex domaine Leflaive reconditioned Batard Montrachet is advanced and is heading towards premox route at a fast pace. Mature profile of ripe apricots, orchard fruits and ripe tropical fruits. Terrific vanilla oak and spiced backbone. This bottle is at its peak and going downhill. Hopefully the rest of the bottles from the case will be better. (86/100)
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3/7/2021 - dream wrote: 90 Points
There is a lot of material here but it's a bit disjointed with the acidity dominating. It did come together some with long air time and showed fine flavors of lemon and clove along with hints of butterscotch and buttered popcorn on the concentrated finish. My friend who brought this had to throw out the first bottle due to Premox which is par for the course. The second bottle seems to need more time but that remains a risk not worth taking in my book as these wines can turn Premox almost overnight. Still, a good rather than great vintage of Leflaive Batard under any light.
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10/11/2020 - The Vines That Bind wrote: flawed
Magnum. Mildly oxidized. Glimpses of goodness underneath but man this is a tough period.
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11/23/2019 - petitblanc wrote: 90 Points
This came into balance with air and as it warmed in the glass. Pretty, youthful lemon-gold color. Fairly generous, sweet, tropical nose, bit of oak. Relatively simple and linear palate, tropical, rich and warm. Nice acidity. Short. Showing its class but not great.
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9/5/2019 - Bathtub58 Likes this wine: 92 Points
No note taken.
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9/5/2019 - paul195 wrote: 85 Points
Brought, along with a 2004 Raveneau Butteaux, to drink with friends Thursday night at the Acker Auction held at Le Bernardin Prive. Popped and tasted.... Light gold color, relatively tight nose showing some yellow fruit a little funk but appeared to be a sound bottle and was a little warm. They put it on ice and we moved on to some champagnes 96 DP, and 96 Oneo, 08 Grand Anne, 08 Cristal rose.....
By the time we returned to some taste some whites, the Rav was just opening up but sadly the Batard, which should have been a baby at 15 years old, now showed some oxidative notes which blemished the wine. Although drinkable, unfortunately this is just is another confirmation to me that this wine is no longer the consistent, long aging, benchmark GC it was up to the 1996 vintage. These need to be consumed much younger. They will never reach the same peak that great older bottles do
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9/5/2019 - hprphf wrote: flawed
Acker 2019/09; 9/5/2019-9/7/2019 (Le Bernardin Prive, Marea): Premox.
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7/12/2019 - MrBrege wrote:
Drank with Peter Lunzer in Sweden. Not over the hill, not oxidised, but not very special.
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11/14/2018 - Alex G. wrote:
Served blind, I was confounded by the oak. Every taster commented on the oak. I got some tropical notes at first too, but they subsided. When it was tropical I guessed 08, then moved toward 07. This is pretty backward and youthful, but given the vintage and producer do you really keep it around hoping for better?
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6/1/2018 - fredb Likes this wine:
Pale gold color. Nose is a bit shy showing some hay, honeysuckle, lemon, and ginger notes. Palate equally shy at first with lime, ginger, and some toasted hazelnut notes. With work, I get a sense of the density of underlying material and there is a sap to this wine, for sure, but fireworks never go off. Holds overnight in the cellar and loses some of its energy on day two, as expected. The finish is shorter than I'd like for a Grand Cru of this age. Blind, a delicious wine. With the label showing, I remain disappointed with this knowing what I've tasted from other vintages over the years. Perhaps more patience will be rewarded - I've not had any oxidation problems in the first three bottles. Drink or hold.
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10/20/2017 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
Theme: Musigny Grand Cru
Tight, not expressive. Deep within there is white pepper perfume and some yellow fruits. Deeply layered, the flavours slowly strike on the palate, seamless. with hint of honey sweetness that accompany by the concentrated fruits yet with amazing ripe acidity for the focus and freshness. Definitely better than the previous bottles. Still long life ahead.
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10/20/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:
Musigny theme'd dinner at Summer Pavilion.
Wow, 2004 seems to be a superlative year for white Burgs! This was quite a step-up from the '08 Carillon BBM, IMO... Nosed of exotic spices, smoke, honey. This was not a typical "fat" Batard, and I liked it alot for its tension, nervousness on the palate which was well-balanced with the fruits. Again, a fresh & long finish! Great!
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9/9/2017 - BradE wrote:
Favre-a-thon 6.0: Kind of a mess. Not sure what was going on here.
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9/2/2017 - MikeATL wrote: flawed
Another premoxed Leflaive.
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8/24/2017 - dream Likes this wine: 93 Points
Butterscotch on the nose at first but it blew off with the second glass. Full-bodied and rich with delicious flavors of hazelnuts, lemon-peel and tropical fruits. There's good acidity underneath and the finish is quite suave and complex with notes of minerals, brown spices and classic Leflaive match stick. The table was torn between those who thought this needed more time and those who thought it was headed towards premox. In the end, it depends on the specific bottle, I guess but I'd vote for drinking this soon.
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7/28/2017 - fredb wrote:
Medium yellow-gold color. Aromas muted, but lemon and honeysuckle come to mind. Palate also closed down with slight hazelnut and toast followed by some butterscotch and lemon notes that carry into a short finish. No excitement here yet but maybe filling in some blanks from the first bottle sampled from this box a few years ago. Hold, but monitor for signs of decline.
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6/14/2017 - CamWheeler wrote: 93 Points
SLDS June 2017 #2: Blind. Smoke, lemon, flint, spice and floral notes. Great texture, the acidity zings across the palate and the fruit has great depth. Superb length and no surprise about its absolute quality when revealed.
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4/18/2017 - BurgFixx Likes this wine: 94 Points
Started off with tropical notes that evolved to more citrus after 30 minutes. Hint of matchstick, well rounded on the palate. Drinking nicely.
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3/23/2017 - Papies wrote: 95 Points
By Coravin,125ml @ 67 Pall Mall. From Magnum.
Having recentrly tried the 2007 ( Papies 95) we jumped on the opportunity to compare. Very similar to the 2007,s till quite young and fresh but has less of oaky/puppy fat feel and shows a lot more complexity. Very elegant, nice depth but no way heavy , creamy and light spicy.Class act and very very good. 95
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3/11/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
La Paulée de New York Gala Dinner (Pier Sixty - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. Concentrated, rich, extroverted. Very spicy, floral long and fun. Probably at its peak.
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12/2/2016 - BradE wrote:
These 04's have been good, not great. Last bottle.
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6/15/2016 - Collector1855 wrote: flawed
Medium yellow. The nose is very nutty, ripe and oxidative. I don't know whether this is premox or just a very ripe style of wine making. To be revisited.
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6/10/2016 - MrBrege wrote:
Drank at La Trompette. Neither corked nor premox, but seemed disjointed at first, even after a double decant 12h earlier and generous time in the glass. In the end it was quite enjoyable with food, but this is not a wine I'd buy again at this price. NR
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2/17/2016 - RayOB wrote: 93 Points
Drank at 67
Very rich with a little bit of nuttiness but not pre-moxed. Great mouthfeel and length.
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10/23/2015 - BradE wrote:
A decent but not great bottle. We had it open for two hours plus, which it needed.
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7/8/2015 - beatles wrote: 93 Points
At a White Horse Tavern in the north country: Brownish color - certainly much more so than previous bottles of Les Pucelles, is it just the difference of the vineyards or is something going on with this wine, as previous notes suggests? In the mouth minerals dominates along with citrus notes and you feel the underlying concentration a long with hints of oxidation. I am not sure where this is going...
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6/8/2015 - BradE wrote:
Lunchtime kickoff for tomorrow's 60th birthday. A very nice bottle. Beautiful nose, lovely palate that just got better and better as it opened.
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6/5/2015 - KVM wrote:
In fabulous condition. Beautiful, classy, long.
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3/9/2015 - BradE wrote:
First bottle was premox. Second bottle - outstanding. And as always, opened up beautifully with an hour of air time, which should have been two or three hours.
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3/9/2015 - BradE wrote:
Total premox.
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12/31/2014 - rlove wrote: 90 Points
A nice but not great wine, still showing significant reduction, with pleasing but dominating matchstick aromas. With extended decant, some floral, ripe peach, and oaky spice notes emerge but this is a little disjointed. Fleshy, almost fat, on the palate, with less acidity than I prefer. Due to the latter I'd drink these sooner rather than later.
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10/16/2014 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
Decades of Decadence - x4s: A little shy at first - rosemary and some light mint and after time it opened up more to show smoky sesame and wild florals. The palate is excellent from the start with real class, even with the Batard fruit weight it is beautifully driven thanks to the piercing acid core. Good texture and length to it, this will continue on a very nice path assuming no ox issues.
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8/7/2014 - MrBrege wrote: 91 Points
Spurred on by notes here threatening premox, I opened one of these earlier than I had intended. The good news: No premox. The not so good news: My high expectations for a Grand Cru I suppose. Despite decanting for 8h the wine seemed a bit closed, it was a nice drink but did not display the multiple layers I had hoped for. In fact most Premier Cru's I have had fro the region I have scored higher than this. Have to hope the rest improve with time.
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7/1/2014 - lepetitchateau wrote: flawed
Oxidation is starting its march here, argh...
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3/16/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
Serious nose of ripe citrus fruit, white flowers and oak/nuts. Big, fat and creamy in the mouth. Rich and round. Long finish.
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2/8/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Wines Tasted at HDH Auction (Tru - Chicago IL): Seriously ripe with charming floral notes to start. Lots of peach aromas and flavors and a unctuous, buttery character/ texture. Lots of pleasure today. Long and fat finish, and I'd err on the side of drinking these younger because of seemingly modest acidity.
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2/8/2014 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
HDH auction tasting at Tru (Chicago, IL): Slight tinge of green. Nostril-singeing sulphur on the nose -- I joked that this was young Pruem. Notes of tropical citrus as well. Slight bit of coconut and very powerful on the palate with tons of citrus. Very, very judicious oak usage -- everything is in balance. Big and bold, but everything's held together by a powerful green laser.
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2/8/2014 - tooch wrote: 95 Points
HDH Auction (Tru - Chicago, IL): Wait. Is this JJ Prum? No, it's just sulphured out the wazoo! Palate is still very young, but has nearly perfect composition. Wonderful concentration of lime, flint, pear, and lemon with sizzling acidity. Love the flinty notes, and sweet lemon character. Super chardonnay.
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1/14/2014 - lepetitchateau wrote: flawed
Nose has a lot of brunt tire, grapefruit and ick. A victim of premature oxidation. (EMP)
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12/20/2013 - fredb wrote:
Medium-pale yellow color. Muted aromas of butterscotch, lemon, and cooked corn. Palate is seemingly one-dimensional and shows very little, with corn, lemon, quince, and hints of butterscotch. No signs of oxidation, but nothing to excite in this bottle. Disappointing and judgement reserved. Resample in 12 months?
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11/5/2013 - Margauxguy wrote: 92 Points
A touch worriesome when first opened, I thought hints of premox. That blew off to a slightly reduced woody nose. Oily and viscous on the palate, with tremendous power and length. Exotic fruits, honeysuckle and jasmine. Very nice.
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10/9/2013 - Javatrader Likes this wine: 94 Points
Nose: Slightly flinty, perfumed, parmesan cheese, talcum powder, rust, wet stone, honeycomb; overall fantastic nose
Oily, full bodied but silky, lychee, green apple, menthol, fantastic acidity
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10/4/2013 - ashegedyn Likes this wine: 96 Points
Wow, this is so young still. Amazing aromas of smoke, mineral, gunflint... Medium to intense. On taste amazing balance and poise, with intensity. Flavors of sweet fruit, great mouthfeel, and an amazing haunting finish. The aromas and flavors lingered for ages. I still get the sense of it the next day. This is what Batard is about.
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9/17/2013 - lepetitchateau wrote: 94 Points
Seems to be coming out of a phase, and evolving in a much better fashion - but still has yet to show the promise of the producer and vintage. At least there is no POX!
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9/13/2013 - kernel Likes this wine: 91 Points
I was hoping for more from this. On the nose it was quite powerful but not
in a typically batard kind of way. Wondered if it might be slightly oxidised.
This was drunk alongside a 2000 that was singing. Maybe didn't help as it was somewhat rushed and wasn't allowed the time it deserved to show more
complexities.
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3/27/2013 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 94 Points
Alcohol :: 13.5%
Bright golden. This was so tight and unyielding at first, even after being opened for 4hrs. Therefore I decide to let it sit in the glass. 2hrs later, BOOM! Such intriguing, seductive gingery spices, such harmony that I hardly dissect the aromas here. One word, think drop dead fragrance and complex. Medium - full bodied. This stunningly rich and complex yet remain great sense of harmony and elegance. This is so gorgeous that grows on the palate when it flows. Everything is perfectly poise. Again, this is such an energetic wine that has enormous drive and length that just wouldn't quit. Wow!
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11/17/2012 - KVM wrote: 95 Points
Nose is earthy, malty on top of the apple, flower and vanilla notes. In the mouth there is apple, and crisp ripe pear and considerable weight. Very, very long slightly saline finish. Spectacular!
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10/9/2012 - clayfu wrote:
When it first opened it was throwing off all kinds of notes of reduction and over use of sulfur. The bottle had to sit over 2 hours to really bring out the power that 04 leflaive typically delivers. Powerful tropical fruit mixed in with slight reductive flavors, the palate is pretty intense, but the reductiveness throws it off a bit. Not sure how it's gonna evolve.
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6/18/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote: flawed
These two bottles are both WAY off, disjointed and awful... concerning
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6/5/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote: 96 Points
Phew - this has worked out! After thue previous attempts, finally this wine is singing. Stunning nose, brimming with energy. There is tremendous reserve and power in this wine. (Chv Blc)
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5/20/2012 - Alex H wrote: 89 Points
Precise pure and savory. Mouth watering acidity. Nice structure and linearity. Power and elegance. Very good mineralogy and limestone. Clean and firm
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5/18/2012 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Judgment of Singapore: Part 1 - Chardonnay and Syrah (Zeffir, Dunlop Street): A lovely wine. This was a real relief after three rather disappointing bottles Chardonnays. It had an entrancing nose, wafting out of the glass in drifts of smoky gunpowder and flint that floated around a core of ripe fruit tones - jackfruit almost - and then white peach and floral blossom aromas. Beautiful stuff. The palate was every bit as good. After the initial trio of slightly disjointed wines, this came across as a perfectly integrated and gracefully balanced wine, with a beautifully melting mouthful of pure apple flavours shading into sweeter stone fruit territory on the midpalate. There was a good depth of fruit here, perhaps not as outwardly powerful as one would expect from a Leflaive Grand Cru, let alone a Batard, but this was made up for by a brilliant sense of poise and focus, with lovely gobs of fresh, lemony acidity keeping the wine ever so lithe and elegant. Past the midpalate, the fruit was lined with wonderful in-seam of stony minerality, almost flinty as it rounded the corner into a long, powerful finish, where the wine stained the back-palate with layers of yellow fruit and mineral, before lingering with just a little lick of gunpowder right at its very tail. All in all, a beautiful drink. This may not be the longest lasting of Batards, but it is a classy drop that will make a rewarding drink from now and probably over the next decade or so. Overwhelmingly voted the Chardonnay of the night.
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5/2/2012 - KostaKats wrote: 91 Points
Gorgeous apple fruit (pink lady, granny, starkin), hazlenuts, vanilla just a hint of butter and marzipan. Medium+ body, apples fighting with citrus fruits and nuts, vanilla, butter on the palate. Incredibly rich fruit and nut melange with a lovely mineral/citrus streak of acidity holding it together and balancing the heaviness (very slight touch of heat on the backend keeps this a 91 pointer rather than higher). 91
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3/20/2012 - St Paul wrote: 94 Points
Comlex and powerful with minerals and sweet citrus fruit. Beautiful to a duck at the lovely hotel in Morey St Denis
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1/19/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote:
This bottle is the same as the note from 6/2011... touch of caramel, spice a bit on edge... I hope this works out but not sure at this point.
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10/19/2011 - petitblanc wrote: 90 Points
HDH French BYOB Dinner: Lots of very toasty oak, with an almost reductive funkiness that leaves this just a bit flat.
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6/2/2011 - lepetitchateau wrote:
Lots of minerality on the palate, but on the palate a disturbingly rough and tumble wine. Totally not interesting now, as the acid is forcing the wine out of balance - plus, a touch of POX on the nose... very concerning but I could not put a score on it and CLEARLY not a score as high as others have given it.
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5/3/2011 - don_quichotte wrote: 94 Points
Unfortunately drank out of inappropriate glass.
Restrained power. Nutty and slightly reductive on the nose. Palate is broad and complex: slight citrus, honeysuckle, and some butter. Long and intense, but in a very refined way.
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3/23/2011 - carlwhat wrote:
we tasted this wine blind, and none of the experienced tasters guessed this wine to be a batard. chevalier was the first guess; as the wine had none of the clumsiness and brute power that most find in a batard. while powerful, the wine had intense concentration and focus. very linear in style. the telltale flintiness in leflaives was there, but you had to focus to pick it up. their was an intense oiliness on the nose, and a long finish that coated the palate. a great showing of this young wine.
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11/29/2010 - Jeff Leve wrote: 91 Points
In the nose, the wine offers a stong citrus, stone and beeswax aromatic. The wine is powerful, but it lacks charm and elegance. This is a hard, masculine, steely style of wine that reminds me of 86 Bordeaux. While well made, it lacks pleasure. I wonder how this would fare in a blind tasting?
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9/9/2009 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
This was relatively open yet dense and concentrated. It was a superb match to the broth and had intense peach fruits cut with some dried flowers, smoky minerals and lemon. It certainly has the power of Batard with a lovely cool fruit restraint.
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7/31/2009 - Alex G. wrote:
Another great showing for Leflaive with signature minerality. Quite delicate relative to the '96 and '04, it gained some midpalate weight with air. I'll be very curious to taste this again in a few years. Recommended
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2/22/2009 - balassis wrote: 94 Points
Dinner at home with my friends George, Vassilis, Costas and my wife Marilena.
Chilled and poured into the glasses.
Light yellow color.
Perfect nose full of butter, white flowers and peanuts on a lemony background.
Totaly full - bodied with a velvety texture and discreet flavors of citrus, minerals, hazelnuts and honeyed banana.
It was the ideal pairing for a pumpkin soup with chestnuts and black truffles.
Excellent!!!
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10/25/2008 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 Points
Académie des Cinquante 53rd Annual Dinner (Restaurant De Librije ***, Zwolle, Netherlands): Not decanted. Great finesse, good intensity and length, not very weighty, opens up nicely in the glass.
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9/27/2008 - noppakit s. wrote: 91 Points
Chilled and open it, then leave the bottle on the table for 1.30 hours before serving.
Strong scent of tropical fruit, a bit flinty, wood, smoke, not too much oak, very charming, deep and clean, dimensions. This is lively Batard and full-loaded of mineral, seductive too.
Well-balanced, beautifully dense, lovely tannic, yummy, almostb full-bodied, I love this stuff.
Nice finished. This is well-made and not too serious Chardonnay. Lovely wine indeed.
Drink now - 2020+
ps. I must find some graet wine from the normal vintage. Now I know what I really need. Good vintage white is too serious and difficult for my soul.
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12/24/2007 - 60ouvrees wrote:
Like the Bienvenue, this had a very pronounced oak char nose but it wasn't as distracting and the quality of the wine still shone through somewhat. Still, these young Leflaives have me worried.
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