1997 Domaine Leflaive Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 97 points

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  10/10/2021 - Bobby Burgundy Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Very interesting wine different than any other Montrachet that I’ve had in the past.

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  8/26/2019 - hprphf Likes this wine: 97 Points

  00348. Wonderfully youthful with plenty of acid, feels barely ten years of age. Signature Leflaive profile, yet lifted, clean and nuanced, more polished than other cuvées. Salt, lemon, pear, peach, yellow fruits, vanilla, grass, citrus, honey, hazelnut, green, mushroom, minerals, gunpowder. Soft linearity, round precision, inward focus; one of those incredibly refined yet need time-to-be emotional kind of wine. Suspect reconditioned. 97+

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  6/29/2012 - Greg Munyard wrote: 97 Points

  Colour: Stunning condition - brilliant light straw, with a greenish tinge. Could not believe it was 15 years old. Has years ahead of it.
  
  Nose: Incredibly complex, superbly integrated amalgam of stoney minerals and a pot pourri of hazelnuts, spices, citrus leaves, honeysuckle, and lots more including hints of apricots and pineapple. Distinctly top end Leflaive but even more complex, more intense and yet with greater finesse and elegance than I could ever have imagined. Deeply penetrating and very precise. Quite extraordinary.
  
  Palate: Oh, my ... . Follows nose: tight, concentrated, focussed, intensely powerful yet remarkably elegant. I can't believe the refinement in such an emphatic wine. The structure is just perfect: the fruit ripeness, oak and acid, too. Among a wonderful minerally base, a whole range of intriguing flavours arise at different moments, so perfectly integrated that it's hard to know where to start with a description. However think hazelnuts, spices, flower blossom, honey (without the sugar), apricots and pineapple (without the sweetness), citrus (without the tart acids) and butter (without the oiliness). Then think extraordinary power and precision and the most perfect finish imaginable, with those deep and wonderful flavours building to a crescendo that lingers and lingers. Impeccable!
  
  This is a conversation stopping wine that had me shaking my head and muttering in disbelief while my wife (who also adored it) went on with her meal ... I'm so glad I drank this before departing this earth.

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