2007 | Domaine Leflaive | Chevalier-Montrachet Discount

2007 | Domaine Leflaive | Chevalier-Montrachet

White Wine: 2007 | Domaine Leflaive | Chevalier-Montrachet

Broad yet incisive, this white features lime, apple, white peach and mineral flavors that are matched to a vibrant frame. There’s intensity and grip, gaining elegance and expanding on the palate, with a long, mouthwatering finish.

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Producer: Domaine Leflaive

Ratings: WA | 95  BH | 96

Vintage: 2007

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14%

Varietal: Chardonnay

Country/Region: France, Cote de Beaune

Detailed Description

Broad yet incisive, this white features lime, apple, white peach and mineral flavors that are matched to a vibrant frame. There’s intensity and grip, gaining elegance and expanding on the palate, with a long, mouthwatering finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Pungent, high-toned herbal essences, heliotrope, narcissus, and lily in the nose…lead to a palate of formidable richness and ripeness of peach, pear, and cantaloupe with liquid floral essences allied to palpable chalkiness and creating a vibratory intensity of fruit, floral, herbal, and mineral interchange. Citrus zest, white pepper, and brown spices add invigoration and palate-staining intensity to a finish of lift and energy. The combination here of an extremely ripe and suggestively sweet personality given the vintage with buoyancy and multifaceted minerality is remarkable and the wine’s sheer length sensational. In 2006 this wine went beyond its vintage’s norms in energy, clarity, and minerality; and in 2007 it goes beyond vintage norms in sheer ripeness and richness.

• Burghound: A strikingly complex nose offers seriously impressive breadth with its aromas of ripe, pure and airy nose of white flower, spice and subtle pear aromas. There is excellent richness to the mouth coating flavors that are built on a base of fine minerality, all wrapped in a sappy and mouth coating finish that oozes dry extract. This is really a lovely effort that is at once refined yet powerful with an almost painfully intense backend. A very impressive effort that is positively Zen-like in its poise and quiet sense of harmony. A ‘wow’ wine though note that it will need plenty of time to fulfill all of its vast potential. Tasted twice with consistent notes.

Producer Information

Domaine Leflaive, based in Puligny-Montrachet, is one of the most important producers in the Côte de Beaune. Focusing almost entirely on white wines made from Chardonnay, the Domaine makes four grand cru wines and four premier crus in Puligny-Montrachet. The Domaine was founded by Joseph Leflaive, a former engineer. In 1905, he purchased vineyards in Puligny-Montrachet which had been ravaged by phylloxera, and set about replanting and expanding them. Upon his death in 1953, his sons Vincent and Jo took over the running of the estate, and are widely credited with building up the reputation that Leflaive enjoys today. In 1990, cousins Anne Claude and Olivier Leflaive took over the running of the estate, with Olivier leaving in 1994 to run his own negociant business. Anne Claude converted the vineyards to biodynamics and is considered a pioneer of that movement in Burgundy. After her death in 2015, her nephew Brice de la Morandiere has taken over the running of Domaine Leflaive. Domaine Leflaive’s most important wine is arguably the Montrachet Grand Cru, which, depending on vintage, can fetch upwards of $5000 a bottle. The domaine also has land in Chevalier-Montrachet, Batard-Montrachet, and Bienvenues-Batard-Montrachet, and makes a grand cru wine from each. Additional to this, there are several premier cru wines, the most important of which is probably the Les Clavoillon, which was one of the wines included in the 1976 Judgment of Paris. Domaine Leflaive also makes a sole red wine from Pinot Noir under the Blagny Sous le Dos d’Ane Premier Cru title.