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Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles 1er Cru(2003)
- Stephen Tanzer
- International Wine Cellar
- Issue 122, September/October 2005
- 90/100
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September 2007
- ($175) Palish yellow color. Reticent aromas of orange oil and vanillin oak. Quite dry and reserved, with a fine-grained texture and notes of peach and flowers. This vineyard produces wine with delicate aromas and is always among the most affected by the bottling, notes Morey.
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Vinfolio
- Among the Leflaive 1ers, my usual preference is either for the Combettes or the Folatières but not in 2003 as the Pucelles is a really lovely and understated effort of sublime quality. A ripe but ultra pure nose of white flower and honeysuckle aromas leads to seductively textured, dense and sweet flavors that offer excellent detail and a somewhat reserved, beautifully long finish. This is the best of these 1ers and it too should benefit from a few years in bottle.
- Burghound
- Issue 19, Jul 01, 2005
- 88/100
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May 2008
- Olivier Leflaive and assistant winemaker Philippe Grillot described 2003 as exceptional in every sense of the term. We had terrible frosts, two hailstorms in May and then of course the heat. Puligny was particularly hard hit. We began picking the pinot on August 24th in Volnay and Pommard because they were the ripest. We did not chaptalize or acidify our reds and did much less punching down and pumping over than usual and bottled them in November. Note: It is Maison Leflaive's policy to delay the release of their reds for 1 to 2 years after the mise so these 2002s will not be available immediately. read more...
- Burghound
- Issue 19, Jul 01, 2005
- 88/100
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May 2008
- Anne-Claude Leflaive, the domaine's managing director, told me that the most notable thing about the 2003 vintage was the amazingly early harvest. You have to go back a long, long time to find such a precocious vintage. We elected to wait until August 30th to begin for one essential reason, which was you cannot reasonably pick fruit at the searing temperatures that were present up until the 28th and expect to make anything notable, or at least not notably good. We had rain and much cooler temperatures after the 28th and harvest conditions were good thereafter until we completed things on September read more...
- BS
- Wine Spectator
- 08/31/05
- 90/100
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August 2005
