France · Burgundy · Cote de Beaune · Puligny Montrachet White · Still · wine-wine · 1074134
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| Price / case | Vintage | Packing | Qty | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2747.00 GBP | 2014 | 6 x 75cl | 1 | uk / United Kingdom |
| 627.00 GBP | 2021 | 3 x 75cl | 2 | uk / United Kingdom |
| 13167.00 HKD | 2022 | 6 x 75cl | 3 | hk / Hong Kong |
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| Vintage | Packing | Offers | Bids | Market price | WA rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 15758.40 | 89 |
| 2010 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 7879.20 | 89 |
| 2011 | 12 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 19803.00 | 90 |
| 2011 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 9901.50 | 90 |
| 2012 | 12 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 13028.40 | 92 |
| 2012 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 6514.20 | 92 |
| 2013 | 1 x 75cl | 2 | 0 | 1806.61 | 93 |
| 2013 | 12 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 21679.32 | 93 |
| 2013 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 10839.66 | 93 |
| 2014 | 12 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 17643.60 | 94 |
| 2014 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 8821.80 | 94 |
| 2015 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2016 | 12 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 19378.32 | |
| 2016 | 6 x 75cl | 1 | 0 | 9689.16 | |
| 2017 | 12 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 18942.96 | |
| 2017 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 9471.48 | |
| 2018 | 12 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 33913.80 | |
| 2018 | 3 x 1.5L | 0 | 0 | 16956.90 | |
| 2018 | 3 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 8478.45 | |
| 2018 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | 16956.90 | |
| 2019 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2020 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2021 | 3 x 75cl | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2021 | 6 x 75cl | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2022 | 6 x 75cl | 0 | 0 |
Rating: 94 –94
Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting, Leflaive's 2014 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru les Pucelles has a tightly wound bouquet, slightly chalky at first with a light marine influence. The palate is crisp and taut with a superb bead of acidity that keeps this on its tiptoes. This is linear and taut but so fresh and vibrant with a long, persistent gunflint/saline finish. Excellent...this simply shimmers in the glass.
Rating: 93 –93
Tasted blind at the annual “Burgfest” tasting in Bouilland. The 2013 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles has a fragrant, well defined bouquet that is very subtle, hints of praline beneath the citrus and mineral scents. The palate is fresh and crisp with vibrant acidity, lively and very saline. I love the tautness on the finish, the personality that this Puligny-Montrachet conveys. This is a Puligny-Montrachet from the top drawer. Tasted May 2016.
Rating: 90 –90
The 2012 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles was a negoce bottling. It has a slightly reduced but mineral-driven bouquet with touches of damp undergrowth and dewy lawn emerging with time. The palate is fresh and crisp with nicely judged acidity. Crisp, fresh and animated, this shows decent length and persistency in the mouth with a hint of white chocolate lingering on the aftertaste. Fine. The Leflaive family has been a fixture within Burgundy for over 18 generations since as far back as 1635. When Olivier Leflaive’s father became ill in 1980, he commenced his tenure at Domaine Leflaive with uncle Vincent, the father of Anne-Claude and he remained there until 1994. “I was a little...bored,” Olivier admits, his trademark cowhide hat rested upon the table. “So in 1985 I created Olivier Leflaive with the help of Vincent and my brother Patrick. I wanted to make wines beyond Puligny and I wanted to make red wines. At the beginning I had no holdings of my own and I was buying in grapes. With the profits I was able to buy vineyards. Now we have around 15 hectares covering 90 different appellations.” Olivier Leflaive has retired from the front line nowadays, though having said that, I suspect that, a bit like Jacques Lardiere ex-Louis Jadot, his heart is too embedded within the domaine to extricate himself completely. His son-in-law Jean Soubeyrand has taken over has director-general and he has a tough job on his hands dealing with a web of contracted growers that occupy another 25 hectares. They have been moving step-by-step toward organic viticulture in recent years, though both Jean and Olivier seemed rather skeptical about biodynamics, even if they agreed that nothing bad can come from it, only good. With challenging vintages fresh in their mind, they want to resort to normal protective sprays when absolutely necessary. Of course, the exceptions are the parcels taken back from Anne-Claude Leflaive in 2009, which they continue to farm biodynamically since they had been handled that way before. Readers should also note that, for the first time, their 2012 whites are bottled under DIAM. They would have required less DIAMs than normal since production plummeted by 50% in 2012, including the complete absence of some of their flagship labels. Olivier Leflaive is an interesting enterprise, very different to that of Anne-Claude Leflaive. Whereas Anne-Claude is devoted – some might say obsessively – to the vineyard and the tenets of Rudolf Steiner (and there is nothing wrong with that if it manifests wondrous wines), Olivier Leflaive’s focus is more upon offering consistency from vintage to vintage – wines that for Burgundy can achieve comparatively high volumes in thousands of cases, not to mention a bustling restaurant and hotel in the heart of Puligny that borrows its marketing style more from the Napa Valley than parochial Burgundy. Chez Olivier Leflaive, tourist are welcome with open arms, as I witnessed for myself as Olivier flitted from table to table during lunch, chatting with guests and posing for the occasional iPhone photo. With respect to the quality of the wines, well, they have never been what you might call “top tier” Burgundy whites, and there has always been a commercial feel to even the top grand crus that might preclude them from the rarefied atmosphere of Anne-Claude or even say, Jacques Carillon, that I visited the same morning. These are the kinds of wines I can imagine been glugged with pleasure in wine bars from New York to London to Tokyo. Discerning oenophiles might eschew them for Anne-Claude’s wines over the road, but then again, not everyone wants to pay the price and not everyone has the means. So while in the cold light of day, my scores might seem parsimonious, there is another part of me, perhaps the more mercantile part, that understands that Olivier Leflaive’s wines fill a niche that other growers do not have the capacity for. Importer: Frederic Wildman and Corney & Barrow (UK)
Rating: 92 –92
Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2012 tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru les Pucelles from Olivier Leflaive has a very refined and delineated bouquet, the new oak present but nicely embroidered into the citrus fruit and underlying mineral notes. The palate is fresh and crisp, quite assertive and spicy, hints of curry leaves towards the finish that is very complex. This is feistier than its counterpart from Anne-Claude Leflaive, less composed and not quite as much finesse. However there is so much going here that it keeps drawing you in.
Rating: 89 –89
The 2010 Puligny Montrachet Les Pucelles shows lovely focus and delineation. Ripe apricots, mint, nectarine and spices flesh out in a relatively broad-shouldered version of Pucelles. There is good intensity in the fruit, even if all the structural elements aren't quite put together, at least not yet. Anticipated maturity: 2012+. Olivier Leflaive's domaine lineup will be getting a big boost in the next few years with the addition of parcels in Sous le Dos d-Ane, Pucelles, Folatieres, Chevalier-Montrachet, and Batard-Montrachet that previously were part of the Domaine Leflaive holdings. In addition, Olivier Leflaive continues with a negociant operation, whose wines are reviewed separately to avoid confusion. Overall, I find the Domaine Olivier Leflaive bottlings more interesting than the Maison wines. All of these 2010s are fairly open and accessible. The best wines may hold for some time, but I don't think cellaring will result in meaningfully more complexity. Importer: Frederick Wildman and Sons Ltd, New York, NY; tel. (212) 355-0700
Rating: 93 –93
Tasted blind at the annual “Burgfest” tasting in Bouilland. The 2013 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles has a fragrant, well defined bouquet that is very subtle, hints of praline beneath the citrus and mineral scents. The palate is fresh and crisp with vibrant acidity, lively and very saline. I love the tautness on the finish, the personality that this Puligny-Montrachet conveys. This is a Puligny-Montrachet from the top drawer. Tasted May 2016.
Rating: 90 –90
Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. The Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru les Pucelles 2011 from Olivier Leflaive has a conservative and linear nose that is pleasingly focused, with slate and tertiary scents unfurling nicely in the glass. The palate is well balanced with a fine line of acidity, but it does not quite possess the tension or the depth of the previous wines in the flight. There is an attractive femininity here and should drink well over the next 5-8 years.
Rating: 89 –91
Copious quantities of mineral, gravel, and spices are found in the nose and flavors of the fresh, fat, rich 2002 Puligny-Montrachet Pucelles. Well-concentrated and ripe, it has a generous mouth-feel that leads to a suave, mineral-laced finish that reveals a hint of alcoholic warmth that prevented a more exalted review. Projected maturity: 2006-2011. Importer: Frederick Wildman & Sons, New York, NY; tel. (212) 355-0700