Region: Burgundy

District: Bourgogne

Type: Still Wine

Color: White

Varietal: Chardonnay

Vintage: 2009

Size: 750ML

Brand: See more from Domaine Leflaive

Sku: 138620

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Domaine Leflaive is a reliable and recognizable beacon in the treacherous landscape that is the land of white burgundy [with] a very recognizable style: piercingly high acidity, a smoky, highly reductive nose and crystalline, vibrant fruit on the palate. The most glamorous wines produced are very limited in quantity and command fairly eye-watering prices, but the Bourgogne Blancs provide a more realistic opportunity to taste top-quality white burgundy. Domaine Leflaive is one of the more substantial domaines in the Côte de Beaune. They have 3.34 hectares, or more than eight acres of clay-limestone soils just downhill of the premier cru Puligny-Montrachet, Les Enseignières (where Coche-Dury have a fine holding), that qualify for the straight Bourgogne appellation. They also declassify the less successful ingredients from their 4.64 hectares that qualify as village Puligny-Montrachet.... It is important, incidentally, to distinguish Domaine Leflaive, which bottles only grapes it grows itself. Jancis Robinson