U4. One of my favorite white burgs of all time. This bottle was decanted for two hours bf drinking; and, yet, it didn't hit its stride until maybe the third hour and bottom 1/3 of bottle. Give this masterpiece time. Back room @ Lark
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good richness here as it warms, and not oxidized to our delight, but perhaps advanced?... well it is 24 years old. the lack of acidity keeps it from being more interesting.
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M&PD Zoom Tasting night of following white Burgs and red Bordeaux:
2013 François Raveneau Blanchot 2011 François Raveneau Valmur 2008 Vincent Dancer Chevalier-Montrachet 2000 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles 1990 Château Troplong Mondot 1990 Château Montrose 2009 Château Smith Haut Lafitte
Wow - burley and balanced at the same time. This bottle was just perfect. A nose of so many flavors: butterscotch, spice, mineral, moss, oak and salt. The entire group could not stop raving about this wine. My favorite of the whites.
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Grand Vin in da house - when Pucelles rocks, it really rocks. Butter, minirales galore, incredible length and balance and with a fine acidity, especially if you consider the vintage. #PB#Jean-Luc
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MAN did I get a great batch on these 2000's! This is the 5th bottle I've had, and all have been outstanding! Rich and buttery, showing GC weight, yet still bursting with citrus cut and saline crushed geology. Little more oak spice showing than the last bottle 2yrs ago, but well integrated with the ripe orchard fruits...very fresh tasting with match strike reduction embalming, lemon wax shine...aged nuances of dried honey, white truffle, wet limestone chalk. Wonderful fullness and length...becomes a symphony of pleasure after a a few sips. This is why we do it! Great wine!
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HDH December auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Chicago, IL): Awesome stuff. It's wines like this that remind me of how awesome Leflaive can be. Lots of reduction on the nose, but the palate is broad and rich, and there's great intensity here. It's a nicely mature chardonnay, but there's this broad power here that I just absolutely adore.
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From magnum, a nice wine that I thought was on the down slope but still tasty. Others in the group were more enamored. Knowing the excellent provenance of this particular magnum, I'd venture to guess most bottles and mags of this wine are way past their prime.
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First bottle of the owc of 6. Intense nose with honey, sesame and minerals. Palate was rich with good minerality. The ripeness of the fruit and the lower acidity showed the vintage. It was drinking very nicely at its peak. It should stay in this plateau for another 4-5 years. A classic and elegant expression of puligny.
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Some 2015 Leflaive and Sauzet with a Mature Treat (Dig Wines, San Francisco): Brought to a tasting by a very generous collector to follow the 2015 Pucelles. Deep yellow/gold. Mature nose with a whiff of truffles but most certainly not maderized. More elegant, lighter weight than the younger wine but not as much extract, stuffing, or for that matter, oak. Average acidity, lovely retention of citrus fruit, good length. Fine fully mature Burgundy not aspiring as much to Grand Cru style as its younger sibling.
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This showed better than the Pattes Loup. White flowers on the nose, with the oak (toast) still apparent. Rounded on the palate, with yellow fruits. Again, perhaps due to the (zichar) setting, this didn't come across too impressive/memorable...
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In the mood for something tuesday-ish......I've had REALLY good luck with these 2000 Pucelles.....I think this is my fourth go around...and all have been super! This bottle shows some soapy sulfur out of the gate...but the freshness is evident! Beautiful creamy mouthful of ripe peaches, apples, lemon/limes....good weight, with the age bringing out some savory honey, green apples sautéed with butter and almonds, toasted marshmallow. Plenty of freshness with the citrus acidity and crushed rocks...wet limestone, chalky, flowers, spice. Round with energy...perfect balance....don't see these declining anytime soon.....another fantastic bottle...tuesday worthy!
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Burg Dinner with Friends (Tete Charcuterie - Chicago IL): Lush white fruit with lots of floral and spice aromas to start. At first I thought this nicely mature with great aromas, softened flavors and a time-to-drink-up character. But more air brought forth greater concentration and flavor intensity. Good bottles of Leflaive 2000s have been rockstar wine like this bottle, but alas, bottles haven't been particularly consistent.
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Huge aromas of white flowers, stone fruit and vanilla oak wafted out of the glass upon pop and pour. The nose was delicious to smell and very enticing as it changes very so often. The palate though was slightly disappointing and might have been better a few years ago. The minerality, flintiness and fruit was all there but seemed slightly dulled and lacking of depth. The finish was rather long carrying the fruit. Slightly over the hill regarding the palate but the nose is still damn good.
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Someting not quite right about this bottle, especially on the nose. A bit funky...no tca or premox. The palate is deliciious with good depth and length.
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Domaine Leflaive with James Handford MW (Handford Wines, London): Right on the money for us and both of us loved it and rated it 95. So it could be a Papies style of wine. Nice gold color. lovely floral nose, citrus notes, light hint of oaky dynamics. Nice minerality, the acidity is present but is polished and round. Nice depth and complexity complete the symphony. Feels fully developed and on the peak ad we would suggest having it sooner than later. A solid 95
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Keith's Blind Challenge 2015 (The Medlar, London): Blind. Mid straw. Classy white burgundy nose. Nicely struck match nose. Quite dense but nicely mineral and focused through the mid palate. A touch if mint makes me think this might be a repeat of the 06 Rammonet BBM, but no. **** Not as impressive as the same wine six years ago, though still lovely.
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Huge wow here. No-doubter right off the bat. Next to the 2005 Batard, and I liked this better. Big thwack of sulfur and gunpowder on the nose to go along with lemony fruit and a chicken broth type of savoriness. Richly fruited but crunchy and crystalline on the palate. This keeps reminding me of those sticky lemon drop candies with the sugar crystal coating, thick, succulent and sticky sweet when you bite into it but with a crunch on the skin. But also plenty of bass tones and depth. And it just doesn't quit. This is the vintage the grapes were so perfect they printed a cross-section of one on the back label and it looked like a Mandelbrot fractal. It still manages to depict the wine pretty well.
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1st of 2 wines in our 2nd-flight (& last) flight of whites. It was almost "too easy" to nail this. Nose was textbook Puligny - flowers, cream, honeysuckle, peaches; very attractive. On the palate, this had a slight oily texture, & the purity really stood out amidst notes of lemons, melons, honey & a bit of butter. So poised and balanced with good minerality and acidity. Very good!
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"1er" Dinner at the American Club to determine which plots belong to a "Grand Cru" status. Bright yellow. Very classic Puligny. Lots of minerals, wet rocks, acid and purity. A very rich, toasty body, with olive oil, kiwis, lime, buttered corn and crushed rocks. This was a lovely Puligny, drinking at its peak, but on the night, the Meursault Perrieres flight was more impressive. Verdict on Grand Cru worthiness - Not there yet, and certainly only Leflaive makes Pucelles worthy of consideration.
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Bright medium golden color. Initial bouquet burst from the glass, like a bowl of creamy tropical fruits and flowers drizzled with honey. I could not keep my nose out of the glass. Rich and lush with layers of fruit that lingered on ones tounge. Quite full bodied with good balance. Decent acidity is this wines only weakness. Clearly ready for prime time and just plain delicious!!!
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Beautiful golden metallic yellow, evoo color…..nose of fresh lemon and limes, peach pit, chalk dust, honey, faint flint strike. This wine is in a perfect place right now…..right out of the gate, wonderful balance and pure cream, yet the party is still going on in the background! No signs of anything letting up here…..fresh pitted yellow fruit, green apple sautéed in butter, white honey, crushed limestone chalk, flower blossoms……cascade of richness….youthfully alive with cut! Couldn't ask for much more…GC tastiness all the way! As I said earlier…this wine is in a perfect place right now…as is Anne Claude...RIP.
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Food: Japanese Duration: 2 hours Condition: Perfect Aroma: Pineapple, toffee, sesame, yeast, coffee Notes: level of ripeness of this wine is peculiar, by saying that I don't mean that it's older than it's actual age but it's pretty different from its 2001. The aftertaste is pretty long but low in acidity. The expression of this wine can only be described by a boutique coffee shop that serves nice and freshly made bread. I find that this wine works well with sour sauces, especially those vinegar based.
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Almost golden colour. First impressions on the nose were a bit odd, but after a few twirls it comes across as a fabulous wine. Great minerality and complexity. Clear citrus notes and long aftertaste.
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House-Cooling Party at Brian's (Moonbeam View): This has always been my favourite 1er Cru from Leflaive and this bottle, which had been opened a day or so ago, was absolutely gorgeous. It had a very creamy nose, almost clotted cream-like at the start, and then opening up with some chalk and earth, bits of saline mineral, some red apples and a waft of perfumy flowers. A typically Leflaive nose, and quite the quintessence of a Puligny with that lovely bouquet. It was a rich, powerful wine on the palate, with an almost oily texture to it, yet it was also wonderful poised and balanced, with an elegance to its lovely depth and presence that spoke of the Pucelles terroir. Right from the attack, perfumy flowers floated around a core of creamy, buttery notes and ripe, powerful flavours of apples, melon and honeyed pears. While not exactly zippy, there was a good amount of acidity knitted into the wine that kept it decently fresh, especially for a 2000. The finish ended with a delightful twist of spice and mineral and final waft of flowers weaving their way through more pure white fruit and creamy flavours. There was wonderful length here, with the wine just refusing to quit. A complex, compelling bottle at a lovely place on the night. Beautiful stuff. My first guess when blinded was a Leflaive Pucelles, but the wine was so good that I changed it to a 2000 Batard-Montrachet instead. This was my favourite of the many good whites on show tonight.
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Superb linearity and precision. Lots of minerals and chalk. Serious stuff. Has a lil new world chard richness and almost possible to be a Rhone white blend. A big chard but does show constraint and lemon minerality.
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Ripe yellow fruit nose with honeyed florality, herbs, toffee, smoky oak and chestnuts. Dry and medium bodied palate with refreshing acidity and buttery touch. Quite fruity with ripe gooseberries, bready bredth, pepper, liquorice and cappuccino. Approachable stuff feeling quite open and ready. Very enjoyable, but nothing that fancy to be honest.
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Very good. Lovely bright flavours and body. Still a bit reticent, or perhaps it's simply the vintage or needed more air? What's there is lovely but it's not quite as powerful as other leflaives I've had.
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New year gathering at G's house: Alcohol : 13.5% En Magnum. Medium golden. The nose is a bit moldy and alcoholic that took away some purity and balance, which I suspected this is not a perfect bottle. Less that, the aromas is actually pretty complex and perfume, with white flower, vanilla oak, toasted bread, spices along with melon, pear, mineral and touch of honey. Open knit, quite forward that offer a lots of concentration, flesh for the creamy mouth feel but lack the structured and acidity for the lift and balance, as well as tension. The level of oak also quite obvious on the palate, with loads of toastiness. Medium length finish with touch of alcohol heat. Not the usual elegant Leflaive Pucelles, pre-mox? Hmm...
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It would be grossly unfair to describe the toasty note on this wine simply as toast, where someone may get the mental image of some pedestrian tip top bread popping up from a standard Breville 2 slice upright toaster. This is posh toast, think perhaps of a slice of Poilane bread that has been toasted over embers created by burning some exotic wood, this is toast that is worthy of being called pain grille. There’s a drizzle of honey too, posh honey that’s sourced from a Ligurian bee. It is classy, balanced and in a remarkably good place right now. It has lovely shape with a fruit sweet heart and a precision thanks in no small part to the breezy, minerally acidity. There are subtle nuances of lemon oil, white flowers and nougat and the palate is high glycerol yet weightless and airy. It finishes with tremendous length of flavour and is one of the very best white wines I’ve had over the past 12 months.
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Bryan's Burgundy Lunch (Medlar, Chelsea): Appearance is significantly more evolved than the Batard - call it medium gold. The nose is less intense, and also less dominated by oak with creamy pear fruit, hints of soil. Medium bodied on the palate with the same ripe creamy fruit signature, acidity is a little flat, but a nice soil signature on the medium/good length finish. Just about hanging in there, worked well with the crab raviolo.
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Still quite young looking with a tight nose. Needed 20 mins of air to get going but didn't really open up further over the next hour and a half. Great balance and finesse. good length. some upside I think.
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Great Pucelles! Classic and drinking well. No need to hurry, but I have had multiple bottles in the past 3 years or so and this probably won't improve with time.
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Great minerality with strong notes of peach and honey, richness and the most incredibly full, perfectly balanced mouthfeel. Complex, textured and overall a wonderful wine. Grand Cru quality with a Grand Cru Price
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Really powerful nose of butterscotch candy and apple . On the palate it was fat and opulent with a waxy texture that showed a sweet long finish. While I liked the wine, I expected more minerality and acidity as while it the finish was long it didn't lend itself to balance out the richness which was almost overbearing. Almost too rich? Guess the vintage really showed through.
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The worst showing of this wine, and I must have drank at least 7-8 bottles now. The nose has that funky hazelnut overtone that wasn't there in other bottles. Some people like Dale, Mark, G. and John Gilman like this. I don't. The color is fine but the wine tastes light and diluted. Not a flawed bottle but definitely different from the other examples I've had. This was a lone bottle that I got at auction,I'm trying to understand what happened there.
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Big night at tajmaHAWLEY (tajmaHAWLEY): Apricot and orange zest on the nose. Mouthfeel is very interesting - cloudy with fat, comes in waves. A little acidity. It was perhaps a little too cold when first opened and hence very tight - there was almost no nose. Once it warmed up a little it got GREAT. This wine could be decanted. When compared to the 2004, I think this is a better vintage.
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Great minerality with strong notes of peach and honey, richness and the most incredibly full, perfectly balanced mouthfeel. Complex, textured and overall a wonderful wine. Grand Cru quality with a Grand Cru Price. One of our guests described it as pinpoints of richness
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Strong notes of peach and honey, richness and the most incredibly full, perfectly balanced mouthfeel. Complex, textured and overall a wonderful wine. Grand Cru quality with a Grand Cru Price.
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Extremely SO2 laden. Even over the course of 3 hours the dominanat theme was matchstickiness. While there is excellent texture, depth and length the fruit is hard to get to through the veneer of sulpher. Perhaps this is an odd bottle or something that will diminish with time. Hard to say.
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Not oxidized, but showing golden color and olfactory honey overtones that I associate more with Chassagne. Not a bad wine and rather representative of my experience with 200o white burgundies: round in the mouth with virtually no acidity leaving an altogether uninteresting wine. Could possible be paired with high acidity cheeses and be somewhat pleasing.
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Fabulous intense greenish gold colour; slightly reserved on the nose, green herbs and oak; a most amazing flavour of creamy lemons, seamless, very intense, rich and rounded, very elegant, steely underpinning, creamy, grand style, amazing length and great finesse; great potential, the ultimate PM PC.
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Golden yellow color, strongest aroma I have ever had with white wines.....but tastes this so-so. Where are Montrachet's apples and butter? Short aftertaste. Definitely, not oxidized. However this wine was very easy to drink (all edges is now rounded by the time), and therefore my wife liked this wine. This was my first deal with Montrachet of such age, and if a mature Montrachet must taste like this, then I am disappointed and in future will prefer younger white Burgundies. {86-88 pts.}
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A really good bottle of this delicious juice. Nose of lemon zest, sweet pineapple and chalky minerals. Quite saturated and intense with gorgeous sweet lemony fruit. Palate staining on the finish with hints of sea shells and smoke on the long, spicy finish. Still could use some time.
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This bottle showed quite a bit of sulphur but it burned off after 45 minutes. Classic chalk and lemon fruit with bracing acidity. Finishes long and finely concentrated but remains lean and grippy. Not a crowd pleaser but still classically styled. Perhaps beginning to lose some of it's fruit. Drink up.
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Seems perfectly aged with delicious chalky lemon fruit. Flowery and elegant but also fairly rich and concentrated and beautifully balanced with succulent acidity. Flavors of white peach and minerals fill the mouth on the long, luxurient finish. Classic Pucelles that's bigger than I would have imagined.
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Yu Jean Kang’s: What a nice interlude between the Alsacians! Intense earthy, nutty, smokey notes (which Robert said was typical of this particular vineyard/producer). The mouth was round, buttery, and had a soft attack, something out of place with the other whites. But the acidity really kicked in with a strong “pique” in the finish (from oak aging?) and made this a really tasty burg. As for pairing with the food, it seemed a little too strong a personality to a few, but I thought it went very well with the chicken in (darker?) sauce with the nuts. [notes: vineyard located just north of Batard-Montrachet, lower on the hillside. Robert, is this what gives the wine it’s stronger flavors?)
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Burg Dinner, Mostly Bonnes Mares and Clos de Tart (Caliterra -Chicago IL): Tasted blind alongside the Leflaive 2000 Batard-Montrachet. Lush fruit and spice on nose. Palate showed lots of fat fruit with good mineral and acid backbone. Nice balance and finish, but perhaps the Batard in the next glass just showed a bit more of everything.
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Pale yellow colour. Good oily texture, medium body, and a delicious butter-like mouth feel, coupled with good density and intensity on the palate. Fresh and vivid with good poise and grip and a prickly aftertaste. 91 points
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Medium yellow. Perfectly open on the nose with hints of popcorn, walnuts, apple peel, and vanilla. In the mouth the wine is medium bodied with plenty of fat and substance, delightful freshness, and a wonderful, broad flavour profile on notes of lime, and other fruits. Well structured for keeping, but quite accessible, even at this young age. As the wine heated up slightly in the glass, the bouquet became more intense with good complexity. Excellent, long finish. The wine had a very faint over-ripe tendency, but nothing that seemed to constitute a problem.
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5/4/2024 - Brolawa wrote:
U4. One of my favorite white burgs of all time. This bottle was decanted for two hours bf drinking; and, yet, it didn't hit its stride until maybe the third hour and bottom 1/3 of bottle. Give this masterpiece time. Back room @ Lark
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2/9/2024 - soyhead wrote:
good richness here as it warms, and not oxidized to our delight, but perhaps advanced?... well it is 24 years old. the lack of acidity keeps it from being more interesting.
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9/12/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 97 Points
200 Burgundy Grand Crus from vintage 2000, 4-day blind tasting (Singapore): Wow, fresh, lemon rind, crisp, rich, mineralic, ripe and racy at the same time. A very grand white Burg.
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4/8/2022 - GSW wrote:
Lovely wine and very youthful.
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4/8/2022 - BradE wrote:
A singleton that's been waiting to be opened, and it was very very pleasing.
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5/13/2021 - Brolawa Likes this wine: 100 Points
M&PD Zoom Tasting night of following white Burgs and red Bordeaux:
2013 François Raveneau Blanchot
2011 François Raveneau Valmur
2008 Vincent Dancer Chevalier-Montrachet
2000 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles
1990 Château Troplong Mondot
1990 Château Montrose
2009 Château Smith Haut Lafitte
Wow - burley and balanced at the same time. This bottle was just perfect. A nose of so many flavors: butterscotch, spice, mineral, moss, oak and salt. The entire group could not stop raving about this wine. My favorite of the whites.
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5/12/2021 - Eric wrote:
M&PD Zoom Tasting: White Burgundy & Red Bordeaux (Zoom): Wow, honey, hazelnut, kaleidescopic palate, tropical, utterly explosive.
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4/24/2020 - tinybubbles wrote: 89 Points
Slightly advanced but still drinkable with a better palate than nose. Lacked the precision off the '99 served alongside. 89-
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9/21/2019 - beatles wrote: 95 Points
Grand Vin in da house - when Pucelles rocks, it really rocks. Butter, minirales galore, incredible length and balance and with a fine acidity, especially if you consider the vintage.
#PB#Jean-Luc
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3/29/2019 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 96 Points
MAN did I get a great batch on these 2000's! This is the 5th bottle I've had, and all have been outstanding! Rich and buttery, showing GC weight, yet still bursting with citrus cut and saline crushed geology. Little more oak spice showing than the last bottle 2yrs ago, but well integrated with the ripe orchard fruits...very fresh tasting with match strike reduction embalming, lemon wax shine...aged nuances of dried honey, white truffle, wet limestone chalk. Wonderful fullness and length...becomes a symphony of pleasure after a a few sips. This is why we do it! Great wine!
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12/14/2018 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
HDH December auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Chicago, IL): Awesome stuff. It's wines like this that remind me of how awesome Leflaive can be. Lots of reduction on the nose, but the palate is broad and rich, and there's great intensity here. It's a nicely mature chardonnay, but there's this broad power here that I just absolutely adore.
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12/14/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Wines Tasted at HDH Auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Spiaggia - Chicago IL): Rich orchard fruit, some peach, faint spice. Fresh for its age, good weight and length, better balance.
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6/23/2018 - Alex G. wrote:
From magnum, a nice wine that I thought was on the down slope but still tasty. Others in the group were more enamored. Knowing the excellent provenance of this particular magnum, I'd venture to guess most bottles and mags of this wine are way past their prime.
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5/30/2018 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 92 Points
First bottle of the owc of 6. Intense nose with honey, sesame and minerals. Palate was rich with good minerality. The ripeness of the fruit and the lower acidity showed the vintage. It was drinking very nicely at its peak. It should stay in this plateau for another 4-5 years. A classic and elegant expression of puligny.
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5/25/2018 - Alex G. wrote:
Served blind. Dark color, there's still fruit here but this wine is past midnight. Sweet on the finish, just a bit flat.
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10/20/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:
Some 2015 Leflaive and Sauzet with a Mature Treat (Dig Wines, San Francisco): Brought to a tasting by a very generous collector to follow the 2015 Pucelles. Deep yellow/gold. Mature nose with a whiff of truffles but most certainly not maderized. More elegant, lighter weight than the younger wine but not as much extract, stuffing, or for that matter, oak. Average acidity, lovely retention of citrus fruit, good length. Fine fully mature Burgundy not aspiring as much to Grand Cru style as its younger sibling.
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10/16/2017 - etyc wrote:
Dinner at 7th Mile Seafood Zichar.
This showed better than the Pattes Loup. White flowers on the nose, with the oak (toast) still apparent. Rounded on the palate, with yellow fruits. Again, perhaps due to the (zichar) setting, this didn't come across too impressive/memorable...
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9/9/2017 - tinybubbles wrote: 90 Points
Still offering some rounded citrus notes, but this bottle was fading and not particularly well defined. 90-
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7/18/2017 - chrishsh Likes this wine: 92 Points
Almond, nutty aroma on the with a toasty and buttery palate on the mouth. Full-body, expressive with lengthy aftertastes. Very well made indeed.
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6/13/2017 - SimonG wrote: 94 Points
White burgundy & Barolo/Barberesco (La Trompette, London): Blind. Full. A touch of salinity. Lots of power here. Rounded but with good cut. Very good indeed. ****1/2
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8/16/2016 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 96 Points
In the mood for something tuesday-ish......I've had REALLY good luck with these 2000 Pucelles.....I think this is my fourth go around...and all have been super! This bottle shows some soapy sulfur out of the gate...but the freshness is evident! Beautiful creamy mouthful of ripe peaches, apples, lemon/limes....good weight, with the age bringing out some savory honey, green apples sautéed with butter and almonds, toasted marshmallow. Plenty of freshness with the citrus acidity and crushed rocks...wet limestone, chalky, flowers, spice. Round with energy...perfect balance....don't see these declining anytime soon.....another fantastic bottle...tuesday worthy!
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4/23/2016 - paul195 wrote: 93 Points
Slightly less intensity than the last bottle but still a delicious white burgundy drinking at its prime
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2/24/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Burg Dinner with Friends (Tete Charcuterie - Chicago IL): Lush white fruit with lots of floral and spice aromas to start. At first I thought this nicely mature with great aromas, softened flavors and a time-to-drink-up character. But more air brought forth greater concentration and flavor intensity. Good bottles of Leflaive 2000s have been rockstar wine like this bottle, but alas, bottles haven't been particularly consistent.
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2/23/2016 - Nicholas81 wrote: 92 Points
Huge aromas of white flowers, stone fruit and vanilla oak wafted out of the glass upon pop and pour. The nose was delicious to smell and very enticing as it changes very so often. The palate though was slightly disappointing and might have been better a few years ago. The minerality, flintiness and fruit was all there but seemed slightly dulled and lacking of depth. The finish was rather long carrying the fruit. Slightly over the hill regarding the palate but the nose is still damn good.
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10/4/2015 - rnellans wrote: 91 Points
Someting not quite right about this bottle, especially on the nose. A bit funky...no tca or premox. The palate is deliciious with good depth and length.
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9/21/2015 - Papies wrote: 95 Points
Domaine Leflaive with James Handford MW (Handford Wines, London): Right on the money for us and both of us loved it and rated it 95. So it could be a Papies style of wine. Nice gold color. lovely floral nose, citrus notes, light hint of oaky dynamics. Nice minerality, the acidity is present but is polished and round. Nice depth and complexity complete the symphony. Feels fully developed and on the peak ad we would suggest having it sooner than later. A solid 95
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9/11/2015 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points
Keith's Blind Challenge 2015 (The Medlar, London): Blind. Mid straw. Classy white burgundy nose. Nicely struck match nose. Quite dense but nicely mineral and focused through the mid palate. A touch if mint makes me think this might be a repeat of the 06 Rammonet BBM, but no. **** Not as impressive as the same wine six years ago, though still lovely.
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8/29/2015 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 97 Points
Huge wow here. No-doubter right off the bat. Next to the 2005 Batard, and I liked this better. Big thwack of sulfur and gunpowder on the nose to go along with lemony fruit and a chicken broth type of savoriness. Richly fruited but crunchy and crystalline on the palate. This keeps reminding me of those sticky lemon drop candies with the sugar crystal coating, thick, succulent and sticky sweet when you bite into it but with a crunch on the skin. But also plenty of bass tones and depth. And it just doesn't quit. This is the vintage the grapes were so perfect they printed a cross-section of one on the back label and it looked like a Mandelbrot fractal. It still manages to depict the wine pretty well.
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5/22/2015 - etyc Likes this wine:
1st of 2 wines in our 2nd-flight (& last) flight of whites. It was almost "too easy" to nail this. Nose was textbook Puligny - flowers, cream, honeysuckle, peaches; very attractive. On the palate, this had a slight oily texture, & the purity really stood out amidst notes of lemons, melons, honey & a bit of butter. So poised and balanced with good minerality and acidity. Very good!
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5/22/2015 - justburg wrote: 91 Points
"1er" Dinner at the American Club to determine which plots belong to a "Grand Cru" status. Bright yellow. Very classic Puligny. Lots of minerals, wet rocks, acid and purity. A very rich, toasty body, with olive oil, kiwis, lime, buttered corn and crushed rocks. This was a lovely Puligny, drinking at its peak, but on the night, the Meursault Perrieres flight was more impressive. Verdict on Grand Cru worthiness - Not there yet, and certainly only Leflaive makes Pucelles worthy of consideration.
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4/30/2015 - paul195 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Bright medium golden color. Initial bouquet burst from the glass, like a bowl of creamy tropical fruits and flowers drizzled with honey. I could not keep my nose out of the glass. Rich and lush with layers of fruit that lingered on ones tounge. Quite full bodied with good balance. Decent acidity is this wines only weakness. Clearly ready for prime time and just plain delicious!!!
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4/26/2015 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 96 Points
Beautiful golden metallic yellow, evoo color…..nose of fresh lemon and limes, peach pit, chalk dust, honey, faint flint strike. This wine is in a perfect place right now…..right out of the gate, wonderful balance and pure cream, yet the party is still going on in the background! No signs of anything letting up here…..fresh pitted yellow fruit, green apple sautéed in butter, white honey, crushed limestone chalk, flower blossoms……cascade of richness….youthfully alive with cut! Couldn't ask for much more…GC tastiness all the way! As I said earlier…this wine is in a perfect place right now…as is Anne Claude...RIP.
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4/12/2015 - TWSA wrote: 92 Points
Food: Japanese
Duration: 2 hours
Condition: Perfect
Aroma: Pineapple, toffee, sesame, yeast, coffee
Notes: level of ripeness of this wine is peculiar, by saying that I don't mean that it's older than it's actual age but it's pretty different from its 2001. The aftertaste is pretty long but low in acidity. The expression of this wine can only be described by a boutique coffee shop that serves nice and freshly made bread. I find that this wine works well with sour sauces, especially those vinegar based.
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9/27/2014 - ptwu Likes this wine: 94 Points
Still drinking beautifully. Bought ten bottles at auction in 2009 and this is my second to last remaining. Great balance, good acidity.
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7/15/2013 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 92 Points
drinking very nicely, no sign of premox
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7/15/2013 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 92 Points
top quality, classy and just entering its peak drinking window
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3/2/2013 - KristianT wrote: 93 Points
Almost golden colour. First impressions on the nose were a bit odd, but after a few twirls it comes across as a fabulous wine. Great minerality and complexity. Clear citrus notes and long aftertaste.
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1/29/2013 - BradKNYC wrote:
The supper club meets at Sarah's. Champagne, Burgundy, Loire Chenin and CDP are served. (Sarah's.): In comparison to the Roulot, I found this a bit ponderous. There's much more obvious oak here with an almost California richness. Ripe stone fruits and citrus with too much butterscotch for my taste. Thickly textured with good depth and resonance, but just too much oak for me. Low B+.
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6/23/2012 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
House-Cooling Party at Brian's (Moonbeam View): This has always been my favourite 1er Cru from Leflaive and this bottle, which had been opened a day or so ago, was absolutely gorgeous. It had a very creamy nose, almost clotted cream-like at the start, and then opening up with some chalk and earth, bits of saline mineral, some red apples and a waft of perfumy flowers. A typically Leflaive nose, and quite the quintessence of a Puligny with that lovely bouquet. It was a rich, powerful wine on the palate, with an almost oily texture to it, yet it was also wonderful poised and balanced, with an elegance to its lovely depth and presence that spoke of the Pucelles terroir. Right from the attack, perfumy flowers floated around a core of creamy, buttery notes and ripe, powerful flavours of apples, melon and honeyed pears. While not exactly zippy, there was a good amount of acidity knitted into the wine that kept it decently fresh, especially for a 2000. The finish ended with a delightful twist of spice and mineral and final waft of flowers weaving their way through more pure white fruit and creamy flavours. There was wonderful length here, with the wine just refusing to quit. A complex, compelling bottle at a lovely place on the night. Beautiful stuff. My first guess when blinded was a Leflaive Pucelles, but the wine was so good that I changed it to a 2000 Batard-Montrachet instead. This was my favourite of the many good whites on show tonight.
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6/23/2012 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points
Superb linearity and precision. Lots of minerals and chalk. Serious stuff. Has a lil new world chard richness and almost possible to be a Rhone white blend. A big chard but does show constraint and lemon minerality.
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5/4/2012 - VHJV wrote: 94 Points
White Burgundy at Helsinki (Classic Wine Cellars, Helsinki, Finland): A wonderful nose of Puligny essence. A great mouthfeel with fine concentration and complexity. Truly fine balance. A fabulous white burg.
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5/4/2012 - avp wrote:
Ripe yellow fruit nose with honeyed florality, herbs, toffee, smoky oak and chestnuts.
Dry and medium bodied palate with refreshing acidity and buttery touch. Quite fruity with ripe gooseberries, bready bredth, pepper, liquorice and cappuccino.
Approachable stuff feeling quite open and ready. Very enjoyable, but nothing that fancy to be honest.
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2/16/2012 - Pacherant wrote: 92 Points
Very good. Lovely bright flavours and body. Still a bit reticent, or perhaps it's simply the vintage or needed more air? What's there is lovely but it's not quite as powerful as other leflaives I've had.
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2/7/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote: 90 Points
Fully mature and a bit overly mature even... Lacks precision, a touch soupy. Fine, just not distinguished
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2/3/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 86 Points
New year gathering at G's house: Alcohol : 13.5%
En Magnum. Medium golden. The nose is a bit moldy and alcoholic that took away some purity and balance, which I suspected this is not a perfect bottle. Less that, the aromas is actually pretty complex and perfume, with white flower, vanilla oak, toasted bread, spices along with melon, pear, mineral and touch of honey. Open knit, quite forward that offer a lots of concentration, flesh for the creamy mouth feel but lack the structured and acidity for the lift and balance, as well as tension. The level of oak also quite obvious on the palate, with loads of toastiness. Medium length finish with touch of alcohol heat. Not the usual elegant Leflaive Pucelles, pre-mox? Hmm...
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1/11/2012 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
It would be grossly unfair to describe the toasty note on this wine simply as toast, where someone may get the mental image of some pedestrian tip top bread popping up from a standard Breville 2 slice upright toaster. This is posh toast, think perhaps of a slice of Poilane bread that has been toasted over embers created by burning some exotic wood, this is toast that is worthy of being called pain grille. There’s a drizzle of honey too, posh honey that’s sourced from a Ligurian bee. It is classy, balanced and in a remarkably good place right now. It has lovely shape with a fruit sweet heart and a precision thanks in no small part to the breezy, minerally acidity. There are subtle nuances of lemon oil, white flowers and nougat and the palate is high glycerol yet weightless and airy. It finishes with tremendous length of flavour and is one of the very best white wines I’ve had over the past 12 months.
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12/2/2011 - Paul D wrote:
Bryan's Burgundy Lunch (Medlar, Chelsea): Appearance is significantly more evolved than the Batard - call it medium gold. The nose is less intense, and also less dominated by oak with creamy pear fruit, hints of soil. Medium bodied on the palate with the same ripe creamy fruit signature, acidity is a little flat, but a nice soil signature on the medium/good length finish. Just about hanging in there, worked well with the crab raviolo.
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11/15/2011 - cortoncharlie wrote: 91 Points
Still quite young looking with a tight nose. Needed 20 mins of air to get going but didn't really open up further over the next hour and a half. Great balance and finesse. good length. some upside I think.
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9/6/2011 - schmoe wrote: 93 Points
Great Pucelles! Classic and drinking well. No need to hurry, but I have had multiple bottles in the past 3 years or so and this probably won't improve with time.
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6/23/2011 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Great minerality with strong notes of peach and honey, richness and the most incredibly full, perfectly balanced mouthfeel. Complex, textured and overall a wonderful wine. Grand Cru quality with a Grand Cru Price
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10/30/2010 - clayfu wrote:
Really powerful nose of butterscotch candy and apple . On the palate it was fat and opulent with a waxy texture that showed a sweet long finish. While I liked the wine, I expected more minerality and acidity as while it the finish was long it didn't lend itself to balance out the richness which was almost overbearing. Almost too rich? Guess the vintage really showed through.
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10/12/2010 - jal wrote: 87 Points
The worst showing of this wine, and I must have drank at least 7-8 bottles now. The nose has that funky hazelnut overtone that wasn't there in other bottles. Some people like Dale, Mark, G. and John Gilman like this. I don't. The color is fine but the wine tastes light and diluted. Not a flawed bottle but definitely different from the other examples I've had. This was a lone bottle that I got at auction,I'm trying to understand what happened there.
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9/6/2010 - BigRed1000 wrote: 89 Points
Flat but not premox.
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8/9/2010 - gschneider wrote: 95 Points
Fantastic. Full of bright apple and pear fruit with great focus and length
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5/14/2010 - sayward wrote: 93 Points
Big night at tajmaHAWLEY (tajmaHAWLEY): Apricot and orange zest on the nose. Mouthfeel is very interesting - cloudy with fat, comes in waves. A little acidity. It was perhaps a little too cold when first opened and hence very tight - there was almost no nose. Once it warmed up a little it got GREAT. This wine could be decanted. When compared to the 2004, I think this is a better vintage.
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4/3/2010 - ricknat1 wrote: 93 Points
Great minerality with strong notes of peach and honey, richness and the most incredibly full, perfectly balanced mouthfeel. Complex, textured and overall a wonderful wine. Grand Cru quality with a Grand Cru Price. One of our guests described it as pinpoints of richness
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3/10/2010 - BigRed1000 wrote: 89 Points
Maybe corked but it never got worse so maybe not. Flat on the mid section with not much acid. Other bottles have been similar.
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11/18/2009 - ricknat1 wrote: 93 Points
Strong notes of peach and honey, richness and the most incredibly full, perfectly balanced mouthfeel. Complex, textured and overall a wonderful wine. Grand Cru quality with a Grand Cru Price.
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9/13/2009 - jimbomatic wrote:
Extremely SO2 laden. Even over the course of 3 hours the dominanat theme was matchstickiness. While there is excellent texture, depth and length the fruit is hard to get to through the veneer of sulpher. Perhaps this is an odd bottle or something that will diminish with time. Hard to say.
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9/1/2009 - ATBridge wrote:
Not oxidized, but showing golden color and olfactory honey overtones that I associate more with Chassagne.
Not a bad wine and rather representative of my experience with 200o white burgundies: round in the mouth with virtually no acidity leaving an altogether uninteresting wine.
Could possible be paired with high acidity cheeses and be somewhat pleasing.
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6/25/2009 - SimonG wrote:
'Vintage Pairs II' Offline (The Ledbury, London): Tighter, more minerally nose. Supremely elegant. Precision, minerality, length. Excellent. *****
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5/28/2009 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 96 Points
Fabulous intense greenish gold colour; slightly reserved on the nose, green herbs and oak; a most amazing flavour of creamy lemons, seamless, very intense, rich and rounded, very elegant, steely underpinning, creamy, grand style, amazing length and great finesse; great potential, the ultimate PM PC.
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2/7/2009 - G.O. wrote:
Golden yellow color, strongest aroma I have ever had with white wines.....but tastes this so-so. Where are Montrachet's apples and butter? Short aftertaste. Definitely, not oxidized. However this wine was very easy to drink (all edges is now rounded by the time), and therefore my wife liked this wine.
This was my first deal with Montrachet of such age, and if a mature Montrachet must taste like this, then I am disappointed and in future will prefer younger white Burgundies.
{86-88 pts.}
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10/18/2008 - dream wrote: 93 Points
A really good bottle of this delicious juice. Nose of lemon zest, sweet pineapple and chalky minerals. Quite saturated and intense with gorgeous sweet lemony fruit. Palate staining on the finish with hints of sea shells and smoke on the long, spicy finish. Still could use some time.
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9/7/2008 - 60ouvrees wrote:
Plenty of ripe fruit buffered by excellent acidity. Another very nice 2000 from Leflaive drinking perfectly now.
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7/9/2008 - dream wrote: 90 Points
This bottle showed quite a bit of sulphur but it burned off after 45 minutes. Classic chalk and lemon fruit with bracing acidity. Finishes long and finely concentrated but remains lean and grippy. Not a crowd pleaser but still classically styled. Perhaps beginning to lose some of it's fruit. Drink up.
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10/11/2006 - dream wrote: 93 Points
Seems perfectly aged with delicious chalky lemon fruit. Flowery and elegant but also fairly rich and concentrated and beautifully balanced with succulent acidity. Flavors of white peach and minerals fill the mouth on the long, luxurient finish. Classic Pucelles that's bigger than I would have imagined.
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7/28/2006 - peternelson wrote: 91 Points
Yu Jean Kang’s: What a nice interlude between the Alsacians! Intense earthy, nutty, smokey notes (which Robert said was typical of this particular vineyard/producer). The mouth was round, buttery, and had a soft attack, something out of place with the other whites. But the acidity really kicked in with a strong “pique” in the finish (from oak aging?) and made this a really tasty burg. As for pairing with the food, it seemed a little too strong a personality to a few, but I thought it went very well with the chicken in (darker?) sauce with the nuts. [notes: vineyard located just north of Batard-Montrachet, lower on the hillside. Robert, is this what gives the wine it’s stronger flavors?)
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4/27/2006 - Rupert wrote:
Lots of small tastes of some very grand wines (Royal Academy, London): Smooth, powdery, luxurious, fine [89]
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3/29/2006 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Burg Dinner, Mostly Bonnes Mares and Clos de Tart (Caliterra -Chicago IL): Tasted blind alongside the Leflaive 2000 Batard-Montrachet. Lush fruit and spice on nose. Palate showed lots of fat fruit with good mineral and acid backbone. Nice balance and finish, but perhaps the Batard in the next glass just showed a bit more of everything.
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3/1/2006 - winefool wrote: 93 Points
Full yellow. Huge big oak nose with lychee yellow fruit. Big viscous butterscotch yellow fruit. 3/06
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8/12/2004 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 91 Points
Pale yellow colour. Good oily texture, medium body, and a delicious butter-like mouth feel, coupled with good density and intensity on the palate. Fresh and vivid with good poise and grip and a prickly aftertaste.
91 points
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4/25/2004 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 92 Points
Medium yellow. Perfectly open on the nose with hints of popcorn, walnuts, apple peel, and vanilla. In the mouth the wine is medium bodied with plenty of fat and substance, delightful freshness, and a wonderful, broad flavour profile on notes of lime, and other fruits. Well structured for keeping, but quite accessible, even at this young age. As the wine heated up slightly in the glass, the bouquet became more intense with good complexity. Excellent, long finish. The wine had a very faint over-ripe tendency, but nothing that seemed to constitute a problem.
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