I enjoyed this whilst everyone else seemed to be disappointed. A very very subtle wine. Yet possessed a long finish. Does not impose itself in any way. For me, my type of wine, but clearly did not impress the rest. D
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This developed nicely in the glass showing lots of mature flavors of ripe, sweet corn and butterscotch balanced by enough acidity and just a touch of Leflaive's signature struck match. Rounded, buttery texture and quite complex and elegant. Very good aged white Burgundy that's certainly deep into its drinking window.
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Wow this bottle was in terrific shape. I had some previous experiences with 2000 Leflaive that were on the downslope, but not this. Fresh, precise, with excellent length. Bravo!
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A perfect bottle of this and it's a gorgeous aged white Burgundy with beautiful notes of buttered popcorn and a very fine soft mineral spice. The finish is so satisfyingly complex with just a subtle hint of the Leflaive sting still present. Fully ready.
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La Tâche Dinner (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): OK this wine hasn't been the most consistent over time, but tonight's was simply sensational. So nicely rich, plus wonderfully fresh for its ago. That age has also added complexity and layers, showing both stone and orchard fruit with sweet and savory spice everywhere, with an intriguing notes of toasted almond and marzipan. Still bright textures, great power and length.
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Served blind, not one person correctly identified the producer, vineyard, or vintage. None of the Leflaive signature I have experienced in past bottles. Really confounding, I thought it was Ramonet from the texture and slight menthol aroma. It didn't have the intensity I have experienced from past bottles. Certainly enjoyable if not the peak experience of this legendary wine.
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Classic Leflaive nose with sesame, caramel, nut fruit, and custard. Rich and powerful palate with very good length and class. The moderate acidity suggests it is in a sweet spot in its drinking window. Excellent.
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Another great vintage of Leflaive.....it’s delicious from the start, but its details are less overt than some of its siblings. it builds and deserves attention as the bouquet is initially is subdued, while the palate gains more nuance and succulence. Ripe apples, pear, minerals, and a kiss of lemon and honey and honey on the finish. It rewards aeration and focus.... i drank this myself (oops) and I got to appreciate the quality over a couple hours. and by the end wished this was a bigger bottle.
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This had such an unusual evolution throughout the evening as at first it seemed disjointed and a bit too mature yet it tightened up in the glass and began to show a wonderful sweet corn and caramel finish that was very complex and mouth-filling. Drink up!
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The 2000 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier Montrachet disappointingly wasn’t balanced and had a slightly musty scent, I wouldn’t have guessed Leflaive in a million years. Tasted blind – Maturing oily yellow fruits and honied spices, traces of botrytis. Powerful with some sophistication on the palate, suggesting a serious vineyard, most likely a good Grand Cru from the Montrachet hill. Montrachet? 2001? This got better after some time in the glass. (88/100)
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Another perfect wine enjoyed during our ’Friday in Lockdown’ series. 2000 Leflaive Chevalier-Montrachet. Probably the best white wine this year. The nose is open - candied jasmine, a bouquet of sweet flowers, honeysuckle, something exotic, elderflower, fresh stone fruit - maybe white peach; not a hint of oxidation. A bit of minerality as a hallmark of Chevalier. An explosion of flavor on the mid-pallet. Rich, full, enveloping. A lasting and fulfilling finish. To die for. Only 3 bottles left from the original case of 12 and only one bottle was a little too evolved 🙃
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From an OWC, i pulled the bottle with light seepage (perfect fill and color). Great dimension and complexity, with evidence of warm weather vintage in the fruit and beautifully balancing acidity. The only thing preventing a higher score is the aromatics are subdued, but for drinking this is exquisite
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Bottle in very good condition. Complex nose with mature aromas of apple, cinnamon, lemon but also nutty and bee wax components. Creamy on the palate with very good freshness still. Excellent length. One wishes that all Leflaive would age like this.
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The Chevalier's (00 and 01) were in perfect shape, and drank well. Both benefited mightily from their decant, and from a few hours of glass time. I slightly preferred the 00, but both were terrific.
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Beef and Vosne (Holland Park): Not quite as impressive as the last time I had it, but this was very nice nonetheless. It had a more exotic nose, with lifted spice, layers of cream, and then white melons shading into stone fruited territory, a lift of white flowers. Just lovely. The palate was rich and powerful, yet well-controlled, with a graceful leap of white fruit, apple and citrus notes laced with notes of butter, mineral and spice leading into a full, rich, warm finish. Lots of subtle complexity to it, but I thought it lacked just a bit of the focus and cut on the finish that one would normally expect from a Leflaive Chevy. It even showed a touch of hot glycerol at points. Even then, this was very nice indeed.
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Classic aged Chevalier with complex flavors of hazelnuts and spices along with minerals and . A lighter-bodied wine at this point but it builds to a fabulously complex finish with just the right amount of acidity with notes of caramel, minerals and salted nuts. Very much ready now.
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Thirteenth Annual White Truffle Dinner (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): In Chevalier-Montrachet flight. Ripe peach and poached pear, but easily showing the structure to balance that ripeness. Powerful with excellent freshness, length and balance. This wine hasn't been the most consistent bottle-to-bottle, but this was a top notch bottle. Best of the flight.
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Open for 13th annual white truffle dinner in a flight of top shelf Chevy's. In a great place and clear wine of the flight. Textbook Chevalier with wonderful depth of pure fruit, focused precision, and salinity. Impressive.
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La Paulée de New York Gala Dinner (Pier Sixty - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. 3rd time I'm having this wine this weekend, and probably the 2nd best bottle. Rich and concentrated and nicely fresh with faint signs of age. Great spice. Great length.
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Zachys La Paulee "Warm-up" Dinner (Lafayette - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. Slightly funky aromatic start, showing age. Fresher palate with very good concentration and plenty of stone fruit. Not the best bottle ever, but I still enjoy this wine a lot.
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Engel and Truchot dinner at Jade Palace. The sole white of the evening, and goodness, this was a superb wine. Tremendously aromatic nose of white flowers, ice cream soda, matchstick, flint, peaches, Indian mango and roasted pineapples. Intense on the palate (I guessed Leflaive Batard), with a fat, rich and opulent mouthfeel of ripe fruits, crushed rocks, meringue, white truffle, vanilla cream and salted popocorn. With extended time, touch of mint, smoke and white chocolate. Another Leflaive masterpiece!
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Served blind. More linear and structured than the '99, a coiled spring with plenty of structure to unwind in the years to come. Today I preferred the '99, but the '00 indicated a much longer life ahead.
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A 40th Birthday Celebration, Dinner Edition (Atlas Bistro - Scottsdale AZ): Served single blind alongside the 1999 vintage. Apple, lemon curd and Meyer lemon aromas, flavors. Less flashy vs 1999 but perfectly balanced and persistent with equally great length. Stayed great for at least three hours in glass.
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Gregg's Belated Birthday (Formento's - Chicago IL): Pristine bottle, personally imported from Europe shortly after release. Floral and enticing spice with ripe peach and Meyer lemon. Powerhouse of a wine to start, seemingly with great reserve. This wine kept expanding and improving over an hour+. Slightly less exciting and powerful when finished after 2 hours in glass.
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Wine Dinner Extravaganza (David Burke's Primehouse - Chicago IL): Rich stone fruit and ripe apple aromas with sweet spice. Intense concentration. Consistent with other recent bottles, I preferred this wine a few years back when slightly brighter and fresher.
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Aromatic, classy and precise. I like the style. However the intensity and development during 2.5 hour is not impressive. Not wow at all. Not worth the high price today.
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Another spectacular showing of this exceptional wine - such a long and precise finish, it's the epitome of power without weight. This wine represents everything I seek in White Burgundy, it's the top of Mt. Olympus.
Read some notes here about the wine being past its prime, and based on my experience that's 100% due to provenance. Pristine bottles are at peak now and should continue drinking brilliantly for years.
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Quite a debate over how far advanced this wine should be right now and whether this was it given the prestige and price. Nose was fantastic with crackling sulphur matchstick, smoke, wet slate minerals, fresh cut white flowers, and underripe tropics. Nose is almost worth it alone. The palate however has a very strange middle and back end, fruit seems to be totally thinned out with high alcohol. Seems too advanced and underwhelming. Not a total premature oxidation issue compared to the 2006 opened alongside, this was lighter in colour and far fresher, but a strangely advanced and unappealing palate. Drinkable but quite a let down.
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Still very young and primary, loads of fresh citrus fruit and white flowers, residual oak. Palate does have more precision than Batard, great balance and loads of stuffings, lots of minerals in the end, no rush.
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Considerable conversation on this wine, and how it is faring currently. The nose started quietly but with time started to show some signs of POX. Palate was strong but not at the heights seen in previous examples.
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Oh wow, this has finally hit its plateau of maturity. Very elegant and finely complex with lovely flavors of sweet lemons and brown spices and it really builds on the finish and stays in the mouth for a long time. Very Chevalier now with classic chalky mineral complexity and great floral lift. Just a very fine white Burgundy with not a hint of premox. Subtle, complex and really dancing on the tongue tonight with great balance and precision.
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An elegant rather than brawny Chev. Very drinkable and such wonderful balance and purity. Dances on the tongue like a ballerina. Utterly drinkable. At a wonderful place now but will hold. Generally not a great fan of the vintage for leflaive but I love this.
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A Tribute to Anne-Claude Leflaive (Iggy's, Hilton Hotel, Singapore): This was the sleeper of the evening, quietly impressing in the midst of its more showy brethren. I think it suffered in a semi-blind tasting because it was a bit subtler in its qualities. By all accounts though, an absolutely gorgeous wine. It had a lovely nose, a little tight, but showing a complex mélange of white chocolate and white fruit, some floral honey and underlying touches of flinty, smoky mineral and a kiss of roasted hazelnuts. Lovely. The palate was so nicely clean and bright that it appeared to lack some of the depth of the other wines at first taste, but this was very deceptive. There was actually a great reservoir of hidden power here, with a long, slow pull of sweet white fruit and lemon peel sprinkled with a little spice that grew and grew in the mouth, all carried on a river of juicy freshness. This was a wine of energy and focus, with a quiet presence and authority that was so effortless that it was almost easy miss. A lovely long finish then pulled away with a kiss of sweet lemons, fruit peel and a little flush of spice, all perched on a lovely stream of gentle minerality. Gorgeous, and starting to drink really nicely. No harm done giving it a few more years to open up even further though. 94+
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Wow, the nose practically screamed Grand-Cru - creamy (very classy), interlaced with specks of flowers, nuts and citrus. On the palate, this came across much weightier & broader, but with less finesse than the Sauzet. But wow (again), after some time in glass, it sure gained clarity and focus. Fresh, balanced, the finish was intense & long. So much "latent power"! This will definitely be a great 5-stars wine in time, but for now, the Sauzet was a tad nicer in terms of enjoyment & drinkability...
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A very beautiful Chevalier perfectly aligned with what I like in whites. Minerality, focus, clean - no funky hints of boytritis or over-extraction, just precision.
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Definitive, world class, reference standard Chevalier Montrachet. This wine has virtually unbelievable length -- the finish goes on well past 3 minutes. Impeccable balance, intense minerality, enticing fruit. It's in a wonderful place right now, and is showing no sign of slowing down.
This wine gets my highest recommendation. An absolutely extraordinary experience.
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Blind White Tasting with Top 2000 White Burgundy (Les Nomades - Chicago IL): Tasted single blind in probably the best wine flight I've had all year. This turned out as WOW, but I was very nervous when opening the bottle several hours earlier, given the cork was fully soaked though and slightly moldy on top. Despite that challenge, this was powerful, lush and incredibly long. Lots of spice came through everywhere from beginning to end.
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In a lovely place right now. Has some nougat, white peach and citrus blossom on the nose. Full and rich in the mouth with a light creamy edge. Good line and plenty of minerality to the finish.
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Dinner at the Fung's! (Fung's): Very good nose. sweet and fruity on the nose. on the pallet, the age shows with good minerals and citrus and some red fruits. Very nice indeed!
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This was majestic. Such lovely tension and underlying material with a finish that goes on forever. Still young with lots of upside but approachable with about 1hour of air.
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Two bottles served side by side. One bottle a bit more reduced. An excellent Leflaive. Big honeysuckle nose with some matchstick. Lush, power, great texture, yet very nice cut for perfect balance. Long finish.
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La Paulee 2.0 S.F.: Rich and alive pit fruit, match strike, smoke, chalk....had super length, plenty of fresh citrus and minerals to go along with the richness...super!
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A stunning and gorgeous wine as always. Impeccably balanced, with rich round mouth feel. White pear, apricot, butter, soft caramel and a hint of stoniness and lemon peel. My favorite chard!
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Resinous nose gives very little away. A citrus tang evaporates into a fuller but still restrained and somewhat astringent minerality. The smooth wood has an undertone of cedar, all the overtones of lemongrass, a hint of white pepper and stone with a vapour of petrol present themselves as the soft alcohol that dominates this wine dissipates. The resin reappears towards the finish and lingers signifincantly beyond the fruit
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The wine looks Light gold colored. The legs are Slow, mineral and citrus dominate. It smells like Lemon (very light), Apple, Peach, Apple blossom, and Honeysuckle. It is a wonderful melange on the palate with Lemon, Orange, Apple, Pear, and Passion fruit. Mineral component provides backbone and structure. The body is Medium/Full. The wine has Silky spicy texture. The wine finishes Long. Spectacular Chardonnay, my favorite of all time
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Slightly restrained fruit on the nose with grainy honey, cream toffee, oxidized copper, mushrooms and nuts. Fullbodied dry palate with good fruit intensity but structural elements more on the front. Sulfury green fruit with richer peachy touches shining through. Cooling palatal feel - slightly metallic but creamy at the same time. Crystallized lemon and earth notes in the long aftertaste. Oak has pretty much integrated. A wonderful wine but the pronounced sulfur indicated that this is meant to last for years still. And so it will. I wouldn't pop these open in the near future.
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A night of White Burgundy at Helsinki (Classic Wine Cellars, Helsinki, Finland): A deep and fine nose. In the mouth amazing intensity of fruit and minerality. It needed lots of air to get going and even then probably only hinted about its potential. Clearly a great wine, but also clearly not at peak yet. If I had more, I'd keep them in the cellar for at least a few years still.
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2000 Vintage Great White Burgundy Dinner (Boka - Chicago IL): Single blind in a great flight of 2000 vintage Chevalier-Montrachet. Powerful, great stone fruit, great spice. Long and sensational. This wine seems to get better with each passing year. My wine of the night, as well as for most of the tasting group tonight.
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HDH auction tasting at Tru (Chicago, IL): Lovely. Very typical aromatics. Intense minerality. Refreshing; notes of licorice. Very judicious with oak usage here. Good balance of fruit and oak; clean and linear. Long finish.
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La Paulee "Warm-up" Dinner (Spruce and RN74 - San Francisco CA): Ripe stone fruit on nose just starting to show some signs of maturity, accompanied by enticing baking spice. Lush peach flavors on palate with same spice. Long, powerful finish shows intense minerality and hints of citrus. Long life going forward.
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Colore bianco paglierino chiaro, al naso subito tocchi di limone, fiori, erbe fini, acido, ricco, poi si chiude, esce un leggero tocco pirico, infine brodino vegetale, bocca legnosetta, amara, perde in lunghezza nei confronti del vicino. Col tempo al naso escono fiori d'arancio ed erbette, ed in bocca rimane ricco. Meno esplosivo di altre bottiglie bevute ma eccellente.
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The nose is showing some sweetness and fantastic character of herbs, minerality and a touch of oak. Spicy notes are great! Profound and deeply satisfying intensity. great wine, and a great bottle of it.
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Very deep and complex nose of citrus and wet stones. Minerals, minerals and more minerals. Pure flavors coat the palate, sexy and focused. Kept improving over 2 hours. Great juice.
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Tons of minerals after it opens..a good hour or more...then layers of citrus, flowers, a touch of honey, a touch of spice and the slightest bit of flint. Quite elegant but still intense.
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On a night when the reds got al the attention this little gem deserves special metion. Took a good 20 mins or so to open in the glass, but after this began to flash a beautifully deep and harmonious mature Burg nose, and a rounded palate of roasted hazelnuts backed by spicy complexity. Fabulous bottle but needs time in glass to open.
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A little closed at first....it needed more than an hour to open. Very elegant and precise. More showy than the Batard. Floral, apple, citrus and tropical notes with a bit of flint too. Excellent balance, background acidity and nice chalky minerality.
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Davvero un vino splendido, con naso elegantissimo e fine (la polvere da sparo è molto sussurata), bocca impetuosa e sovrastante. Bella evoluzione durante il pranzo su vari toni di fiori e minerali.
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Surprisingly shut down. At first some really tart acidity, but after a few hours the wine began to open and cover the acidity, showing some rich honeysuckle, botrytis, and a touch of oak. A beautiful wine but not in a good place at the moment.
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Domaine Leflaive Tasting and Dinner (Knightsbridge - Northbrook IL): Very floral with dried apricot, lots of sweet spice aromas. intense and very powerful fruit flavors, still fresh. New oak seemed a little more pronounced here vs a slightly better bottle from a few months ago, but very close in quality.
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Domaine Leflaive Dinner (Chicago, IL): More orange overtones, with a mature weightiness. Great minerallity to the finish. Some chalkiness on the finish. A bit disconnected, but really good.
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Chambolle Musigny "Southside" 1er Cru Dinner (Custom House - Chicago IL): Served blind. Color was indicative of the wine's age. Big lush fruit on nose and palate. Great fruit and spice as first tasted, oak is still a bit prominent in the middle, then long fruit-filled finish. Great minerality and acidity. I've had slightly more exciting bottles than this but I'd still give this a bit more time. I slightly preferred this to the Sauzet 2000 Chevalier also served blind in the next glass.
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Southside Chambolle 1er Crus (Chicago IL): Served Blind. Slightly golden color. A lot of lemon on the nose with wet rocks, lightly toasted nuts, and smokey oak. Creamy on the palate with huge mineral backbone. Long finish.
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At 3-Michelin star restaurant De Librije (Zwolle, The Netherlands): excellent wine, great. Immediately after being poored a very, very broad nose of minerals, discreet wood, fruit (apple, citrus, some tropical hints), chalk, flint. It just keeps on evolving for hours. Great stuff!
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Acker Pre-Auction tasting (New York, NY): Tasting, brief note. Lots of ripe stone fruit aroma and flavor with amazing density. Still a bit of new oak stands out, but that's such a minor point in this wine's overall greatness.
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Fairly lean even for a Leflaive Chevalier but clearly shows the terroir of the vineyard with tasty flavors of lemons and chalky minerals. Rather spiny with firm acidity and perhaps a little light on richness and intensity but it clearly needs more time to show it's stuff.
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pretty closed. very mineral driven with streaks of pears and hazlenuts. opens up considerably with time and is like drinking liquefied rocks. incredibly classy wine.
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Wonderful. Opened tight, minerals, and shades of oak. Blossomed into fatter wine, with excellent minerality, and a nearly endless finish. Open agin in 2009+.
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Medium to light yellow. Scents of minerals, vitamin pills, wet stone and chalk. To begin with this wine was just a tad closed but with air it opended up nicely. The minerality appeared with about 30 minutes of air. Large bodied and very concentrated in the mouth with deliciously complex and detailed flavours of lime, pears, and apples intermixed with hazel-nuts. Very powerful and intense on the palate, housed in a large frame work with great precision, purity, and freshness defined by a razor sharp beam of ripe acid. Oily in texture - classic White Burgundy at that - without grossly overblown oak. The finish was long and balanced on notes of pears and butter. Another testament to the qualities of the 2000 vintage. 96 points
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2/23/2024 - _water.into.wine_ wrote:
I enjoyed this whilst everyone else seemed to be disappointed. A very very subtle wine. Yet possessed a long finish. Does not impose itself in any way. For me, my type of wine, but clearly did not impress the rest. D
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9/30/2023 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
This developed nicely in the glass showing lots of mature flavors of ripe, sweet corn and butterscotch balanced by enough acidity and just a touch of Leflaive's signature struck match. Rounded, buttery texture and quite complex and elegant. Very good aged white Burgundy that's certainly deep into its drinking window.
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9/9/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 99 Points
200 Burgundy Grand Crus from vintage 2000, 4-day blind tasting (Singapore): Holy cow. A rich, buttery, wine, powerful but then with lots of tension and acidity. Another awesome wine in this awesome flight.
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6/4/2022 - BradE wrote:
A bottle in perfect shape. Deep, rich, exotic. Nothing subtle here. I liked it vs loved it.
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3/27/2022 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Wow this bottle was in terrific shape. I had some previous experiences with 2000 Leflaive that were on the downslope, but not this. Fresh, precise, with excellent length. Bravo!
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12/3/2021 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
A perfect bottle of this and it's a gorgeous aged white Burgundy with beautiful notes of buttered popcorn and a very fine soft mineral spice. The finish is so satisfyingly complex with just a subtle hint of the Leflaive sting still present. Fully ready.
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8/5/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 96 Points
La Tâche Dinner (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): OK this wine hasn't been the most consistent over time, but tonight's was simply sensational. So nicely rich, plus wonderfully fresh for its ago. That age has also added complexity and layers, showing both stone and orchard fruit with sweet and savory spice everywhere, with an intriguing notes of toasted almond and marzipan. Still bright textures, great power and length.
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7/23/2021 - Alex G. wrote:
Served blind, not one person correctly identified the producer, vineyard, or vintage. None of the Leflaive signature I have experienced in past bottles. Really confounding, I thought it was Ramonet from the texture and slight menthol aroma. It didn't have the intensity I have experienced from past bottles. Certainly enjoyable if not the peak experience of this legendary wine.
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7/7/2021 - englishman's claret wrote:
What a delight - beautiful custard, lemon, slightly tropical fruit, broad and intense. Fabulous. Mid 90s
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5/29/2021 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
From magnum. Good depth here and a pleasing sweetness to the fruit. 94-95
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5/29/2021 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
Classic Leflaive nose with sesame, caramel, nut fruit, and custard. Rich and powerful palate with very good length and class. The moderate acidity suggests it is in a sweet spot in its drinking window. Excellent.
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5/7/2021 - steinersing wrote: 97 Points
another excellent bottle, searingly fresh with depth and weight.
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2/19/2021 - kr522 wrote: 95 Points
Another great vintage of Leflaive.....it’s delicious from the start, but its details are less overt than some of its siblings. it builds and deserves attention as the bouquet is initially is subdued, while the palate gains more nuance and succulence. Ripe apples, pear, minerals, and a kiss of lemon and honey and honey on the finish. It rewards aeration and focus.... i drank this myself (oops) and I got to appreciate the quality over a couple hours. and by the end wished this was a bigger bottle.
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8/22/2020 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
This had such an unusual evolution throughout the evening as at first it seemed disjointed and a bit too mature yet it tightened up in the glass and began to show a wonderful sweet corn and caramel finish that was very complex and mouth-filling. Drink up!
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6/16/2020 - Jammy Wine wrote: 88 Points
The 2000 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier Montrachet disappointingly wasn’t balanced and had a slightly musty scent, I wouldn’t have guessed Leflaive in a million years. Tasted blind – Maturing oily yellow fruits and honied spices, traces of botrytis. Powerful with some sophistication on the palate, suggesting a serious vineyard, most likely a good Grand Cru from the Montrachet hill. Montrachet? 2001? This got better after some time in the glass. (88/100)
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6/12/2020 - steinersing wrote: 98 Points
Another perfect wine enjoyed during our ’Friday in Lockdown’ series. 2000 Leflaive Chevalier-Montrachet.
Probably the best white wine this year. The nose is open - candied jasmine, a bouquet of sweet flowers, honeysuckle, something exotic, elderflower, fresh stone fruit - maybe white peach; not a hint of oxidation. A bit of minerality as a hallmark of Chevalier. An explosion of flavor on the mid-pallet. Rich, full, enveloping. A lasting and fulfilling finish. To die for.
Only 3 bottles left from the original case of 12 and only one bottle was a little too evolved 🙃
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3/29/2020 - kr522 wrote: 95 Points
From an OWC, i pulled the bottle with light seepage (perfect fill and color). Great dimension and complexity, with evidence of warm weather vintage in the fruit and beautifully balancing acidity. The only thing preventing a higher score is the aromatics are subdued, but for drinking this is exquisite
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9/21/2019 - steinersing wrote: 97 Points
A beautiful wine again, density and elegance . Very Long. Held over 3 hours. Next to 2002 - very similar.
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4/27/2019 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points
Bottle in very good condition. Complex nose with mature aromas of apple, cinnamon, lemon but also nutty and bee wax components. Creamy on the palate with very good freshness still. Excellent length. One wishes that all Leflaive would age like this.
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3/16/2019 - steinersing wrote: 97 Points
Pace of aging is immaculate
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3/6/2019 - BradE wrote:
The Chevalier's (00 and 01) were in perfect shape, and drank well. Both benefited mightily from their decant, and from a few hours of glass time. I slightly preferred the 00, but both were terrific.
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1/19/2019 - steinersing wrote: 96 Points
Excellent, fresh, deep, no undesired evolution whatsoever
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1/10/2019 - fcxj wrote: 88 Points
On the edge of pox.
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8/15/2018 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Beef and Vosne (Holland Park): Not quite as impressive as the last time I had it, but this was very nice nonetheless. It had a more exotic nose, with lifted spice, layers of cream, and then white melons shading into stone fruited territory, a lift of white flowers. Just lovely. The palate was rich and powerful, yet well-controlled, with a graceful leap of white fruit, apple and citrus notes laced with notes of butter, mineral and spice leading into a full, rich, warm finish. Lots of subtle complexity to it, but I thought it lacked just a bit of the focus and cut on the finish that one would normally expect from a Leflaive Chevy. It even showed a touch of hot glycerol at points. Even then, this was very nice indeed.
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6/29/2018 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Rich, elegant, nutty, minerals. Touch sweet on finish and not entirely coherent. Quite good but not top notch Chevy.
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12/1/2017 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
Classic aged Chevalier with complex flavors of hazelnuts and spices along with minerals and . A lighter-bodied wine at this point but it builds to a fabulously complex finish with just the right amount of acidity with notes of caramel, minerals and salted nuts. Very much ready now.
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11/17/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Thirteenth Annual White Truffle Dinner (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): In Chevalier-Montrachet flight. Ripe peach and poached pear, but easily showing the structure to balance that ripeness. Powerful with excellent freshness, length and balance. This wine hasn't been the most consistent bottle-to-bottle, but this was a top notch bottle. Best of the flight.
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11/17/2017 - KenK Likes this wine: 96 Points
Open for 13th annual white truffle dinner in a flight of top shelf Chevy's. In a great place and clear wine of the flight. Textbook Chevalier with wonderful depth of pure fruit, focused precision, and salinity. Impressive.
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9/9/2017 - BradE wrote:
Favre-a-thon 6.0: For a number of us there was something weird (in a bad way) that we couldn't get past.
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8/24/2017 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Solid bottle. Beginning to round, particularly on the finish, but for the time being showing good depth and reasonable cut.
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7/19/2017 - steinersing wrote: 94 Points
This is now just slightly more evolved and less fresh than earlier bottles - no hints of premox- great density and length - minerals
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4/12/2017 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Depth and acidity improved with air time. Rich citrus rind notes.
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3/11/2017 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Paulee. Lovely white fruit, floral nose.
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3/11/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
La Paulée de New York Gala Dinner (Pier Sixty - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. 3rd time I'm having this wine this weekend, and probably the 2nd best bottle. Rich and concentrated and nicely fresh with faint signs of age. Great spice. Great length.
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3/9/2017 - tinybubbles wrote: 91 Points
Mediocre bottle. Beginning to oxidize and overall presenting a thin and low energy palate. 91-92
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3/9/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Zachys La Paulee "Warm-up" Dinner (Lafayette - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. Slightly funky aromatic start, showing age. Fresher palate with very good concentration and plenty of stone fruit. Not the best bottle ever, but I still enjoy this wine a lot.
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3/2/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:
RE & Truchot dinner at Jade Palace.
This showed so much younger than the label suggested. Nose of high-class oak & white-flowers. Very fresh and mineral on the palate. Long finish!
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3/2/2017 - justburg wrote: 92 Points
Engel and Truchot dinner at Jade Palace. The sole white of the evening, and goodness, this was a superb wine. Tremendously aromatic nose of white flowers, ice cream soda, matchstick, flint, peaches, Indian mango and roasted pineapples. Intense on the palate (I guessed Leflaive Batard), with a fat, rich and opulent mouthfeel of ripe fruits, crushed rocks, meringue, white truffle, vanilla cream and salted popocorn. With extended time, touch of mint, smoke and white chocolate. Another Leflaive masterpiece!
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2/24/2017 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Served blind. More linear and structured than the '99, a coiled spring with plenty of structure to unwind in the years to come. Today I preferred the '99, but the '00 indicated a much longer life ahead.
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2/24/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
A 40th Birthday Celebration, Dinner Edition (Atlas Bistro - Scottsdale AZ): Served single blind alongside the 1999 vintage. Apple, lemon curd and Meyer lemon aromas, flavors. Less flashy vs 1999 but perfectly balanced and persistent with equally great length. Stayed great for at least three hours in glass.
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12/27/2016 - sjwshiraz wrote:
Another great 2000 Chevalier from before Leflaive's premox problems began. Everything in its place and still on the way up.
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8/26/2016 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Boom! This is fantastic. Mineral with looooong finish.
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8/23/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 96 Points
Gregg's Belated Birthday (Formento's - Chicago IL): Pristine bottle, personally imported from Europe shortly after release. Floral and enticing spice with ripe peach and Meyer lemon. Powerhouse of a wine to start, seemingly with great reserve. This wine kept expanding and improving over an hour+. Slightly less exciting and powerful when finished after 2 hours in glass.
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5/20/2016 - dcwino wrote: 95 Points
Annual gathering with Chicago winos in Chicago - Burgs, SQNs and Cult cabs (David Burke's Primehouse): Beautiful fully mature GC nose, orchard yellow fruit, petrol, lanoline, a hint of flint and mineral. Despite slightly lacking acidity, strong presence of mineral provides good precision. Drink up.
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5/20/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Wine Dinner Extravaganza (David Burke's Primehouse - Chicago IL): Rich stone fruit and ripe apple aromas with sweet spice. Intense concentration. Consistent with other recent bottles, I preferred this wine a few years back when slightly brighter and fresher.
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5/6/2016 - Nakhata wrote: 91 Points
Aromatic, classy and precise. I like the style. However the intensity and development during 2.5 hour is not impressive. Not wow at all. Not worth the high price today.
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4/23/2016 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Excellent, lean.
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3/25/2016 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Another spectacular showing of this exceptional wine - such a long and precise finish, it's the epitome of power without weight. This wine represents everything I seek in White Burgundy, it's the top of Mt. Olympus.
Read some notes here about the wine being past its prime, and based on my experience that's 100% due to provenance. Pristine bottles are at peak now and should continue drinking brilliantly for years.
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1/21/2016 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 92 Points
Quite a debate over how far advanced this wine should be right now and whether this was it given the prestige and price. Nose was fantastic with crackling sulphur matchstick, smoke, wet slate minerals, fresh cut white flowers, and underripe tropics. Nose is almost worth it alone. The palate however has a very strange middle and back end, fruit seems to be totally thinned out with high alcohol. Seems too advanced and underwhelming. Not a total premature oxidation issue compared to the 2006 opened alongside, this was lighter in colour and far fresher, but a strangely advanced and unappealing palate. Drinkable but quite a let down.
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10/27/2015 - steinersing wrote: 97 Points
Another one from different provenance - again just amazingly brilliant. Precise and utterly enjoyable.
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10/17/2015 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Fresh, precise and mineral. Just wow.
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10/17/2015 - Pacalet Likes this wine: 95 Points
Still very young and primary, loads of fresh citrus fruit and white flowers, residual oak. Palate does have more precision than Batard, great balance and loads of stuffings, lots of minerals in the end, no rush.
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10/10/2015 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Gorgeous citrus and mineral LONG finish goes on for minutes. So elegant. A+ reference standard wine
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10/7/2015 - lepetitchateau wrote: 93 Points
Considerable conversation on this wine, and how it is faring currently. The nose started quietly but with time started to show some signs of POX. Palate was strong but not at the heights seen in previous examples.
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8/29/2015 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
Oh wow, this has finally hit its plateau of maturity. Very elegant and finely complex with lovely flavors of sweet lemons and brown spices and it really builds on the finish and stays in the mouth for a long time. Very Chevalier now with classic chalky mineral complexity and great floral lift. Just a very fine white Burgundy with not a hint of premox. Subtle, complex and really dancing on the tongue tonight with great balance and precision.
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8/28/2015 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Mineral, elegant, absolutely no sign of fading.
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8/26/2015 - cortoncharlie wrote: 95 Points
An elegant rather than brawny Chev. Very drinkable and such wonderful balance and purity. Dances on the tongue like a ballerina. Utterly drinkable. At a wonderful place now but will hold. Generally not a great fan of the vintage for leflaive but I love this.
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7/8/2015 - kenv Likes this wine: 97 Points
Dinner with Ed Zimmerman, Chris Thile, and Other Cool Folks (White Street Restaurant, NYC): Stunning nose of minerals and lemon custard. Complex and super long in the mouth. I would say this is at its peak now. I liked this even better than the Montrachet that followed it.
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5/4/2015 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
A Tribute to Anne-Claude Leflaive (Iggy's, Hilton Hotel, Singapore): This was the sleeper of the evening, quietly impressing in the midst of its more showy brethren. I think it suffered in a semi-blind tasting because it was a bit subtler in its qualities. By all accounts though, an absolutely gorgeous wine. It had a lovely nose, a little tight, but showing a complex mélange of white chocolate and white fruit, some floral honey and underlying touches of flinty, smoky mineral and a kiss of roasted hazelnuts. Lovely. The palate was so nicely clean and bright that it appeared to lack some of the depth of the other wines at first taste, but this was very deceptive. There was actually a great reservoir of hidden power here, with a long, slow pull of sweet white fruit and lemon peel sprinkled with a little spice that grew and grew in the mouth, all carried on a river of juicy freshness. This was a wine of energy and focus, with a quiet presence and authority that was so effortless that it was almost easy miss. A lovely long finish then pulled away with a kiss of sweet lemons, fruit peel and a little flush of spice, all perched on a lovely stream of gentle minerality. Gorgeous, and starting to drink really nicely. No harm done giving it a few more years to open up even further though. 94+
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5/2/2015 - etyc Likes this wine:
Wow, the nose practically screamed Grand-Cru - creamy (very classy), interlaced with specks of flowers, nuts and citrus. On the palate, this came across much weightier & broader, but with less finesse than the Sauzet. But wow (again), after some time in glass, it sure gained clarity and focus. Fresh, balanced, the finish was intense & long. So much "latent power"! This will definitely be a great 5-stars wine in time, but for now, the Sauzet was a tad nicer in terms of enjoyment & drinkability...
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4/24/2015 - steinersing wrote: 97 Points
A very beautiful Chevalier perfectly aligned with what I like in whites. Minerality, focus, clean - no funky hints of boytritis or over-extraction, just precision.
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2/28/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
La Paulée de New York Gala Dinner (Metropolitan Pavilion - New York NY): Tasting, brief note. Lots of ripe stone fruit, good spice and floral support. Slightly more advanced vs other bottles from the same case from the past few years.
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2/21/2015 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Definitive, world class, reference standard Chevalier Montrachet. This wine has virtually unbelievable length -- the finish goes on well past 3 minutes. Impeccable balance, intense minerality, enticing fruit. It's in a wonderful place right now, and is showing no sign of slowing down.
This wine gets my highest recommendation. An absolutely extraordinary experience.
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2/16/2015 - sjwshiraz wrote:
Just beginning to fade compared with the last few bottles tried. Perhaps a weaker bottle ?
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8/10/2014 - BradE wrote: flawed
Favre 3.0 Friday Night.: Corked.
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7/29/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Blind White Tasting with Top 2000 White Burgundy (Les Nomades - Chicago IL): Tasted single blind in probably the best wine flight I've had all year. This turned out as WOW, but I was very nervous when opening the bottle several hours earlier, given the cork was fully soaked though and slightly moldy on top. Despite that challenge, this was powerful, lush and incredibly long. Lots of spice came through everywhere from beginning to end.
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6/10/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
In a lovely place right now. Has some nougat, white peach and citrus blossom on the nose. Full and rich in the mouth with a light creamy edge. Good line and plenty of minerality to the finish.
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6/2/2014 - BradE wrote:
Clean, balanced, lovely.
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4/26/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
French Laundry (Napa): Same as the bottle we had in March. This somehow seemed slightly more finessed.
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4/22/2014 - BradE wrote:
Pre-moxed, or oxed, nonetheless not drinkable.
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12/30/2013 - jeremy@ Likes this wine: 95 Points
Dinner at the Fung's! (Fung's): Very good nose. sweet and fruity on the nose. on the pallet, the age shows with good minerals and citrus and some red fruits. Very nice indeed!
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7/4/2013 - cortoncharlie wrote: 94 Points
This was majestic. Such lovely tension and underlying material with a finish that goes on forever. Still young with lots of upside but approachable with about 1hour of air.
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6/26/2013 - rnellans wrote: 96 Points
Two bottles served side by side. One bottle a bit more reduced. An excellent Leflaive. Big honeysuckle nose with some matchstick. Lush, power, great texture, yet very nice cut for perfect balance. Long finish.
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6/23/2013 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 95 Points
La Paulee 2.0 S.F.: Rich and alive pit fruit, match strike, smoke, chalk....had super length, plenty of fresh citrus and minerals to go along with the richness...super!
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4/18/2013 - Margauxguy wrote: 97 Points
A stunning and gorgeous wine as always. Impeccably balanced, with rich round mouth feel. White pear, apricot, butter, soft caramel and a hint of stoniness and lemon peel. My favorite chard!
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12/28/2012 - NRT Likes this wine: 93 Points
Resinous nose gives very little away. A citrus tang evaporates into a fuller but still restrained and somewhat astringent minerality. The smooth wood has an undertone of cedar, all the overtones of lemongrass, a hint of white pepper and stone with a vapour of petrol present themselves as the soft alcohol that dominates this wine dissipates. The resin reappears towards the finish and lingers signifincantly beyond the fruit
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12/2/2012 - Margauxguy wrote: 96 Points
The wine looks Light gold colored. The legs are Slow, mineral and citrus dominate. It smells like Lemon (very light), Apple, Peach, Apple blossom, and Honeysuckle. It is a wonderful melange on the palate with Lemon, Orange, Apple, Pear, and Passion fruit. Mineral component provides backbone and structure. The body is Medium/Full. The wine has Silky spicy texture. The wine finishes Long. Spectacular Chardonnay, my favorite of all time
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11/30/2012 - avp wrote:
Slightly restrained fruit on the nose with grainy honey, cream toffee, oxidized copper, mushrooms and nuts.
Fullbodied dry palate with good fruit intensity but structural elements more on the front. Sulfury green fruit with richer peachy touches shining through. Cooling palatal feel - slightly metallic but creamy at the same time. Crystallized lemon and earth notes in the long aftertaste. Oak has pretty much integrated.
A wonderful wine but the pronounced sulfur indicated that this is meant to last for years still. And so it will. I wouldn't pop these open in the near future.
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11/30/2012 - VHJV wrote: 94 Points
A night of White Burgundy at Helsinki (Classic Wine Cellars, Helsinki, Finland): A deep and fine nose. In the mouth amazing intensity of fruit and minerality. It needed lots of air to get going and even then probably only hinted about its potential. Clearly a great wine, but also clearly not at peak yet. If I had more, I'd keep them in the cellar for at least a few years still.
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9/24/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 96 Points
2000 Vintage Great White Burgundy Dinner (Boka - Chicago IL): Single blind in a great flight of 2000 vintage Chevalier-Montrachet. Powerful, great stone fruit, great spice. Long and sensational. This wine seems to get better with each passing year. My wine of the night, as well as for most of the tasting group tonight.
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7/11/2012 - Margauxguy wrote: 96 Points
Always spectacles and getting better. Lovely super balanced acidity structure and fruit. Ripe glycerin in a mouth coating yummy fruit bowl.
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5/11/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote: 95 Points
similiar notes but this bottle was less evolved, less giving right now.
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5/3/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote: 95 Points
Minerally nose, very youthful. Unevolved on the palate but has all the indications for a good future.
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3/24/2012 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
HDH auction tasting at Tru (Chicago, IL): Lovely. Very typical aromatics. Intense minerality. Refreshing; notes of licorice. Very judicious with oak usage here. Good balance of fruit and oak; clean and linear. Long finish.
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3/24/2012 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
Really lovely wine. Wet stone, oily texture plenty of fruit great acidity.
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2/24/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
La Paulee "Warm-up" Dinner (Spruce and RN74 - San Francisco CA): Ripe stone fruit on nose just starting to show some signs of maturity, accompanied by enticing baking spice. Lush peach flavors on palate with same spice. Long, powerful finish shows intense minerality and hints of citrus. Long life going forward.
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1/23/2012 - Margauxguy wrote: 89 Points
Slightly funny on the most and palate. Maybe corked?
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1/5/2012 - BradE wrote:
A pleasure to drink. Wish I had more.
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12/30/2011 - Jossik wrote: 92 Points
Colore bianco paglierino chiaro, al naso subito tocchi di limone, fiori, erbe fini, acido, ricco, poi si chiude, esce un leggero tocco pirico, infine brodino vegetale, bocca legnosetta, amara, perde in lunghezza nei confronti del vicino. Col tempo al naso escono fiori d'arancio ed erbette, ed in bocca rimane ricco. Meno esplosivo di altre bottiglie bevute ma eccellente.
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11/11/2011 - SimonG wrote: flawed
Burgundy Revisited (Chez Shama): Lovely weight, really impressive, rich and dense in the mouth. No sign of oxidation. It's corked though. Bother.
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7/29/2011 - Margauxguy wrote: 96 Points
One of the greatest chafes I have had
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7/27/2011 - lepetitchateau wrote: 97 Points
The nose is showing some sweetness and fantastic character of herbs, minerality and a touch of oak. Spicy notes are great! Profound and deeply satisfying intensity. great wine, and a great bottle of it.
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5/14/2011 - BurgFixx Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very deep and complex nose of citrus and wet stones. Minerals, minerals and more minerals. Pure flavors coat the palate, sexy and focused. Kept improving over 2 hours. Great juice.
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3/19/2011 - BradE wrote:
Great bottle, but this wine is still so youthful. If you own it, wait a while.
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2/12/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
La Paulee Gala (New York, NY): Great spice aromas with ripe, lush peach on both nose and palate. Very powerful and great spice on long finish.
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12/9/2010 - placecarnot wrote: 94 Points
Awesome from the start, so much power, and seemed younger than 2000. Softened over the course of dinner, a very beautiful wine.
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5/29/2010 - Anonymous wrote: 96 Points
Tons of minerals after it opens..a good hour or more...then layers of citrus, flowers, a touch of honey, a touch of spice and the slightest bit of flint. Quite elegant but still intense.
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5/24/2010 - Margauxguy wrote: 98 Points
Absolutely spectacular.
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5/2/2010 - Khamen wrote: 95 Points
On a night when the reds got al the attention this little gem deserves special metion. Took a good 20 mins or so to open in the glass, but after this began to flash a beautifully deep and harmonious mature Burg nose, and a rounded palate of roasted hazelnuts backed by spicy complexity. Fabulous bottle but needs time in glass to open.
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4/9/2010 - Anonymous Likes this wine: 95 Points
A little closed at first....it needed more than an hour to open. Very elegant and precise. More showy than the Batard. Floral, apple, citrus and tropical notes with a bit of flint too. Excellent balance, background acidity and nice chalky minerality.
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4/3/2010 - Jossik wrote: 95 Points
Davvero un vino splendido, con naso elegantissimo e fine (la polvere da sparo è molto sussurata), bocca impetuosa e sovrastante. Bella evoluzione durante il pranzo su vari toni di fiori e minerali.
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12/17/2009 - Samantha wrote:
Surprisingly shut down. At first some really tart acidity, but after a few hours the wine began to open and cover the acidity, showing some rich honeysuckle, botrytis, and a touch of oak. A beautiful wine but not in a good place at the moment.
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10/15/2009 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Domaine Leflaive Tasting and Dinner (Knightsbridge - Northbrook IL): Very floral with dried apricot, lots of sweet spice aromas. intense and very powerful fruit flavors, still fresh. New oak seemed a little more pronounced here vs a slightly better bottle from a few months ago, but very close in quality.
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10/15/2009 - psmith wrote:
Domaine Leflaive Dinner (Chicago, IL): More orange overtones, with a mature weightiness. Great minerallity to the finish. Some chalkiness on the finish. A bit disconnected, but really good.
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8/3/2009 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Chambolle Musigny "Southside" 1er Cru Dinner (Custom House - Chicago IL): Served blind. Color was indicative of the wine's age. Big lush fruit on nose and palate. Great fruit and spice as first tasted, oak is still a bit prominent in the middle, then long fruit-filled finish. Great minerality and acidity. I've had slightly more exciting bottles than this but I'd still give this a bit more time. I slightly preferred this to the Sauzet 2000 Chevalier also served blind in the next glass.
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8/3/2009 - MatthewF wrote:
Southside Chambolle 1er Crus (Chicago IL): Served Blind. Slightly golden color. A lot of lemon on the nose with wet rocks, lightly toasted nuts, and smokey oak. Creamy on the palate with huge mineral backbone. Long finish.
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5/1/2009 - MauriceE wrote: 95 Points
At 3-Michelin star restaurant De Librije (Zwolle, The Netherlands): excellent wine, great. Immediately after being poored a very, very broad nose of minerals, discreet wood, fruit (apple, citrus, some tropical hints), chalk, flint. It just keeps on evolving for hours. Great stuff!
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3/2/2009 - Margauxguy wrote: 95 Points
AAlway a great bottle, rich, layered, balanced, white fruits and great structure. I love this wine.
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5/20/2008 - Jeff W wrote:
"Grand Crew" Trailwalkers Charity Dinner (Insititute of Directors): Lovely nose. A wine of great power and finesse. Big, oaky and classy. Impressions of minerality, purity and oakiness. Impressive.
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10/26/2007 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Acker Pre-Auction tasting (New York, NY): Tasting, brief note. Lots of ripe stone fruit aroma and flavor with amazing density. Still a bit of new oak stands out, but that's such a minor point in this wine's overall greatness.
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7/24/2007 - dream wrote: 91 Points
Fairly lean even for a Leflaive Chevalier but clearly shows the terroir of the vineyard with tasty flavors of lemons and chalky minerals. Rather spiny with firm acidity and perhaps a little light on richness and intensity but it clearly needs more time to show it's stuff.
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6/24/2007 - winenutnyc wrote:
pretty closed. very mineral driven with streaks of pears and hazlenuts. opens up considerably with time and is like drinking liquefied rocks. incredibly classy wine.
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7/17/2006 - ski695 wrote: 95 Points
Wonderful. Opened tight, minerals, and shades of oak. Blossomed into fatter wine, with excellent minerality, and a nearly endless finish. Open agin in 2009+.
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7/2/2005 - 128 wrote:
The wife came back from a jog in Holland Park wanting a nice bottle of wine. I thought this might fit the bill.
Cork did not appear to have had a peroxide bleach. Nutmeg on the nose, a mouthful of nut essence, great length. Nice indeed.
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7/25/2004 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 96 Points
Medium to light yellow. Scents of minerals, vitamin pills, wet stone and chalk. To begin with this wine was just a tad closed but with air it opended up nicely. The minerality appeared with about 30 minutes of air. Large bodied and very concentrated in the mouth with deliciously complex and detailed flavours of lime, pears, and apples intermixed with hazel-nuts. Very powerful and intense on the palate, housed in a large frame work with great precision, purity, and freshness defined by a razor sharp beam of ripe acid. Oily in texture - classic White Burgundy at that - without grossly overblown oak. The finish was long and balanced on notes of pears and butter. Another testament to the qualities of the 2000 vintage.
96 points
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