Winery - Olivier Leflaive
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Firm and tight, a wine that reveals more structure than fruit initially, leaving the citrus and grapefruit flavors to emerge later. Then it closes up again, keeping some of the mineral austerity. Keep this wine for a year.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is delicious white Burgundy. The fruit is lively, crisp, lemony, while the texture is rounded, just tight enough to give structure, but open enough to be relaxed. The finish offers just a hint of spice.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Rounded, soft and spicy, this is a lively wine; not complex, just enjoyable. Lemon and white pear flavors are dominant, while the acidity is easy, fresh and textured by green apples.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This exuberant wine has pineapple, pepper and perfumed toast. It is open, generous, kept in check with some crisp acidity, but essentially rich, lively and buttery. This is a down-to-earth wine, fat, prosperous and friendly.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
White and tropical fruits dominate this powerful wine. It has earthiness, an edge of rusticity that comes from its youth. Persistent toast and spice give richness as well as some structure, followed by green plum juice and fresh, crisp white currants.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
White fruits, figs, pears and currants dominate this fine, steely wine, a blend from a number of premier cru vineyards. The structure of freshly peeled apple skin tightens the wine, layering the acidity and freshness. The flavors crispen up on the vibrant, flinty finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is one of Olivier Leflaive’s benchmark wines, showing how his winemaker Franck Grux keeps lightness, freshness and complexity all in play. To start, it is firm and austere, then it bursts out with green fruits, toast, white currants and lemon, integrated and balanced. Drink now, or age for 2–3 years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This big, forward, fruity wine loves its plum, ripe green and yellow fruits. Touches of buttered toast add to the rich mixture. Acidity is there, but this is a wine to luxuriate it, ready to drink now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
With its mouthwatering, crisp, fresh fruit flavors and minerality, this wine layers acidity and its tight yellow fruits. It could be austere, but for the rich pineapple and apricot flavors and the full, ripe finish. An impressive wine, it would certainly repay aging.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A great cocktail of fruit flavors propel this wine out of the glass. It is ripe and crisp at the same time, the fruits running from peach to grapefruit and back again. There is plenty of acidity, crisp green apple structure, but at the end it is all about richness, a mouthful of delicious Chardonnay.
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