1996 | Domaine Leflaive | Puligny-Montrachet 1 Cru Combettes

Introduction

White Wine: 1996 | Domaine Leflaive | Puligny-Montrachet 1 Cru Combettes

The 1996 Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes offers a refined, crystalline nose of minerals, salt, and rocks. This awesomely precise, focused, and elegant wine has extraordinary minerality and length.

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Producer: Domaine Leflaive

Ratings: WC | 92-94 WS | 97

Vintage: 1996

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Chardonnay

Country/Region: France, Puligny Montrachet Les Combettes

The 1996 Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes offers a refined, crystalline nose of minerals, salt, and rocks. This awesomely precise, focused, and elegant wine has extraordinary minerality and length.

Reviews:

• Wine Spectator: Amazing. Distinctive malic-lactic aromas open up this beautiful, full-bodied, vibrant, incredibly concentrated and intense white. Keeps your palate company for five minutes after sipping it–it’s that long.

• Wine Cellar: Slightly more yellow color. Strong floral aroma along with spice and butter notes. Wonderful sweetness in the mouth, with the floral character repeating. Tactile and extremely long on the aftertaste.

Producer Information

Domaine Leflaive, based in Puligny-Montrachet, is one of the most important producers in the Cte de Beaune. Focusing almost entirely on white wines made from Chardonnay, the Domaine makes four grand cru wines and four premier crus in Puligny-Montrachet. The Domaine was founded by Joseph Leflaive, a former engineer. In 1905, he purchased vineyards in Puligny-Montrachet which had been ravaged by phylloxera, and set about replanting and expanding them. Upon his death in 1953, his sons Vincent and Jo took over the running of the estate, and are widely credited with building up the reputation that Leflaive enjoys today. In 1990, cousins Anne Claude and Olivier Leflaive took over the running of the estate, with Olivier leaving in 1994 to run his own negociant business. Anne Claude converted the vineyards to biodynamics and is considered a pioneer of that movement in Burgundy. After her death in 2015, her nephew Brice de la Morandiere has taken over the running of Domaine Leflaive. Domaine Leflaive’s most important wine is arguably the Montrachet Grand Cru, which, depending on vintage, can fetch upwards of $5000 a bottle. The domaine also has land in Chevalier-Montrachet, Batard-Montrachet, and Bienvenues-Batard-Montrachet, and makes a grand cru wine from each.