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Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Pucelles," Dom. Leflaive - 2020

Name: Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Pucelles," Dom. Leflaive
Brand: Dom. Leflaive
SKU: 29577
Price: 849.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 29577 750mL

Les Pucelles is located next to Clavoillon and below Les Caillerets; the soils are rich in limestone, with an excellent exposure. The Puligny-Montrachets of Domaine Leflaive are classics of the region, exhibiting honeysuckle and citrus on an opulent nose. Fuller bodied, with balancing acidity, this is an extremely stylish wine, meant for company or keeping.

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Color

White

Vintage

2020

Country

France

Region

Burgundy

Sub-Region

Côte de Beaune

Appellation/Village

Puligny-Montrachet

Producer

Dom. Leflaive

Grape Variety

Chardonnay

Limited Production: Only 1 bottle(s) per customer

Production Methods

Organic

Biodynamic

Wine made from grapes grown organically using natural composting techniques and special preparations of herbal sprays while following the astronomical calendar.

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About the Producer

Puligny-Montrachet Burgundy, France Leflaive is a tightly knit, proud family who can date their ancestry back to the Middle Ages and speak about the terroir of their land in terms of centuries rather than decades. Patriarch Claude Leflaive established the house in 1717, but the “modern” winemaking started in 1920s with the marriage of Joseph Leflaive, into a vineyard-holding family in Puligny....

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Glossary

Burgundy

The range of wine styles offered in Burgundy rivals that of any other region. In Chablis, Chardonnay is left unoaked to produce lean, crisp, steely wines with incredible acidity - a far cry from the vanilla-oak bombs that so many consumers associate with this grape. Fans of rich, unctuous, and well-oaked Chardonnay will enjoy Chassagne-Montrachet, whose age-worthy offerings offer all the fatness of a California wine, yet retain a very Burgundian, mineral-driven core and great acidity....

Chardonnay

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking world. It is a flexible, eager-to-please grape, responding well to just about anything a winemaker...