Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru

Specification

Producer

Domaine Leflaive

Region

Burgundy

Where

Puligny-Montrachet, Burgundy

Classification

Grand Cru

Grapes

Chardonnay

Vintage

2014

Case

3 x 75cl OWC

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

CHEMON143X75

About this wine

Chevalier-Montrachet lies upslope from Le Montrachet on thin, stony soils, and gives one of the most mineral and finely structured white Burgundies. Leflaive’s Chevalier is usually the most reserved of the domaine’s wines in youth, pure and tightly wound, and it needs time; in good vintages it ages for twenty years or more.

About Domaine Leflaive

Domaine Leflaive is the leading estate of Puligny-Montrachet, where the Leflaive family has lived since the eighteenth century. The domaine took its modern shape under Joseph Leflaive in the early twentieth century and is still family owned. From 1990 it was run by Anne-Claude Leflaive, who converted the vineyards to biodynamic farming during the 1990s.

The domaine holds parcels in the grands crus Montrachet, Chevalier-Montrachet, Bâtard-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, and in Puligny’s best premiers crus. Its white Burgundies are prized for their precision, purity and ability to age, and are among the most sought-after Chardonnays in the world.