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1995 Domaine Leflaive Puligny Montrachet les Pucelles

I've been on a mission to clean out my older white burgs this year and this is another one that I uncovered in the orphan bin. Pale gold in the glass with a lot of viscosity. Somewhat restrained nose of lemon oil and roasted pecans with a faint whiff of vanilla. Somewhat thick in the mouth with a mouthcoating thickness however the acid allowed it to cut right through and not become cloying. No signs of oxidation on the palate but a very rich melange of Meyer lemon, hazelnuts and honey. A real zip of acidity finished each taste. The wine changed with every sip but it never lost focus or fruit over the hour that it took to finsih the bottle. A solid "A" on the Dale scale.

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Bi!!
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Indeed they can. I'm still working on Jean's willingness to let our GC Chablis age longer, but there's no question that white Burgundies are the longest-aging Chardonnays I know of. However, in case you've missed this, Dale was alluding to the longstanding Internet controversy over whether the white Burgundies made in the mid-'90s (esp. '96) were prematurely oxidizing. Here's a link to the wiki devoted to the subject:

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As you can see, Dom. Leflaive gets a clean bill of health in '95. For the most part, they seem to have avoided the problem, such as it is.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

"Bi!!" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com:

Ooh. Those 97 Leroy were (are - ping Dan the Man! some still in Phila!) on closeout here in Pennsylvania, for $17.99. I think I managed to have 6 or

7 bottles, and have 3 more left :)

Closest I probably will ever get to the exalted heights ;) :)

(They were pretty good, though the corks were filthy, and the bottles smelled very funky on first pour, that blew off though, and very tasty. Not oxidised, that I could tell.) d.

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enoavidh

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