Online Wine Store
Shop Menu
Domaine Leflaive Pouilly Fuisse 2023
Couldn't load pickup availability
- TASTING NOTE: "The result is a 2023 vintage with remarkable balance, structure, and excellent concentration. When well made, a Pouilly-Fuissé Village can come close to a Premier Cru. And while already excellent when young, it has the potential to become truly exceptional after seven to eight years of cellaring." - Domaine Leflaive
- ABOUT THE WINE: Clay-limestone soil, with a very shallow depth of soil. Gentle slope. 0.234 ha. Situated below the Roche de Solutré, facing due south. Very precocious terroir.
-
ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Third-generation Anne-Claude Leflaive took over in 1994, working with winemaker Pierre Morey until his retirement in 2008. Since the untimely death of Anne-Claude in 2015, her nephew Brice de La Morandière has
run the estate; he appointed current winemaker Pierre Vincent in 2017, who
will be leaving the estate at the end of 2024. The family farms 24ha in the Côte
de Beaune and as much again in the Mâconnais, entirely planted to Chardonnay. The domaine has been farmed according to biodynamic principles since the harvest of 1997; Brice de La Morandière believes that this has dramatically benefited the clay-rich soils. The Chardonnay grapes are lightly crushed before a slow press, a brief settling and then fermentation in cask. During the first year, the wines are left in barrel and not racked until August. - COUNTRY: France
- REGION: Burgundy
- SUB-REGION: Maconnais
- VARIETAL: Chardonnay
- WINE STYLE: White Wine
- WINEMAKER: Pierre Vincent
- CLASSIFICATION: Biodynamic Farming
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 13
- SIZE: 750ml
