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Domaine Leflaive Meursault Sous le Dos d'Ane(2004)
Light yellow color. Sweet aromas of soft citrus fruits and nutty, vanillin oak. Ripe and harmonious, with sweet fruit flavors of orange and peach. Offers an attractive sugar/acid balance
- Burghound
- Issue 23, Jul 01, 2006
- 89/100
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May 2008
- Winemaker and régisseur Franck Grux describes 2004 as one with a difficult growing season. August was cloudy and wet with limited luminosity. What was interesting was how delayed the maturities were and then it was as though someone flipped a switch and sugars started skyrocketing. We began picking on September 25th and even one week earlier the grapes were not sufficiently ripe to even make plonk. I am still surprised that the grapes got as ripe and have as much material as they did because yields were generous with big bunches. We did a very soft pressing and even so, we declassified 20% of the read more...
- Jancis Robinson
- 17/20
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May 2008
- Acidity and a bit of liquorice and lemon - certainly no richness or opulence. Clean and fresh and competent but no great weight.
- Burghound
- Issue 23, Jul 01, 2006
- 91/100
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May 2008
- Winemaker and régisseur Franck Grux describes 2004 as one with a difficult growing season. August was cloudy and wet with limited luminosity. What was interesting was how delayed the maturities were and then it was as though someone flipped a switch and sugars started skyrocketing. We began picking on September 25th and even one week earlier the grapes were not sufficiently ripe to even make plonk. I am still surprised that the grapes got as ripe and have as much material as they did because yields were generous with big bunches. We did a very soft pressing and even so, we declassified 20% of the read more...
- Burghound
- Issue 27, Jul 01, 2007
- 89/100
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May 2008
- Pierre Morey, the domaine's régisseur, told me that 2004 is a vintage of the vigneron but that in and of itself, while critical, wasn't enough. You really had to pay attention during the élevage but it was easy for the wines to get off track due to their extreme transparency. In short, details mattered even more than usual. As to the growing season, we had good bunch set and they grew quickly though oidium was very aggressive and had to be watched without a break. Indeed, I have never seen such oidium problems in so many vineyards; I even saw some of them that were so black that they weren't read more...
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April 2008
- A spicy, nutty wine that shows some of the Meursault broadness but also offers some subtlety, with ripe fruits layered with more complex wood and herb flavors. -Wine Enthusiast
