2013 Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru

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Tasting Notes

The set is completed via a virtuoso Chevalier that opens with an exotic array of perfumes, recalling Oriental spices and scents, quite beyond the range of the preceeding wines. You can feel the ripeness in the wine but it has such control over its performance you cannot help but be carried by it as it moves, twists and turns, ever graceful and weaving patterns that only it can see. Subtle, engaging and endlessly fascinating, a wine that leaves behind the task of empirical assessment and connects to a less tangible, more spiritual dimension. Drink from 2019.

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Domaine Leflaive

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Burgundy & Chablis Wine Region, France

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TASTING NOTES

The blend consists of 95% Tempranillo from 40-year-old vines in Las Cuevas, El Palo and Las Monjas in Rodezno, complemented with 5% Graciano from the Montecillo estate in Fuenmayor. The Graciano gives the wine an aromatic intensity and acidity, to carry the structure and elegance of the Tempranillo. The grapes are vinified separately in four-and-a-half-year-old American oak for three years, and...

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