The Wine Advocate
RP 89
Reviewed by: William Kelley
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2027 - 2042
The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Village opens in the glass with aromas of peach, toasted nuts and white flowers. Medium-bodied, satiny and chalky, it's delicate and fine-boned, with a middle-weight, understated personality.
Published: Jan 31, 2025
The Wine Advocate
RP 96
Reviewed by: William Kelley
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2027 - 2050
The most ethereal as well as the most elegant of Leflaive's whites is the 2021 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru, a deep, full-bodied wine redolent of white flowers, sweet citrus oil, bread dough, iodine, fresh mint and wet stones. Satiny, layered and incisive, with lovely depth and purity, it's taut and electric, concluding with a long, chalky finish.
Published: Jan 19, 2024
2021 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clavoillon
The Wine Advocate
RP 92+
Reviewed by: William Kelley
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2027 - 2040
The 2021 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clavoillon is youthfully reserved, unwinding in the glass with aromas of pear and green apple mingled with toasted nuts, freshly baked bread and iodine. Medium-bodied, tangy and electric, with racy acids and a searingly saline finish, it will age with grace.
Published: Jan 19, 2024
2017 Domaine Leflaive Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru
The Wine Advocate
RP (93-95)
Reviewed by: William Kelley
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: N/A
Like the Pucelles, the 2017 Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is quite tensile and reserved, unfurling in the glass with aromas of green orchard fruit, iodine, orange rind and creamy new wood. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, textural and fleshy, but taut—even firm—at the core, with good concentration, tangy acid and a bright, chalky finish. Like all these releases, I'm looking forward to seeing it from bottle.
Published: Jan 05, 2019