Leflaive Domaine

I’ve been drinking Leflaive whites since 1980’s and love the Chevalier Montrachet. I“ve had all of their whites except the Montrachet. In fact in the 80’s I got either five or six of the eleven cases imported by Wildman Importers each year. The others went to the owner of the Water Club in Manhattan. It was so difficult to buy a case that liquor store owners would have to buy a 100 cases of Borgogne blanc to get one. I was a lucky man.
I also have had all their Puligny Montrachet. I find the Clavoillon my favorite.
It has been a joyous relationship with greatness, their wine and my drinking.
The winery is open to visits and the tasting room is their restaurant in town.
Go. Drink. Eat. Drink the best and now you can stay at their hotel across the street from the tasting room.

The various wines of Puligny/​Chassagne –Montrachet and Meursault continue to impress me. Domaine Leflaive is no exception. The complexity of flavor and minerality in these wines are fantastic. A biodynamically grown vineyard with manual harvesting, gives way to pneumatic pressing and slow decanting. After 12 months in oaks casks, they’re aged for 6 months in tanks and then bottled. Some things do benefit in a mixing of new and old technologies. Domaine Leflaive’s Puligny Montrachet is one of them