Domaines Leflaive Macon Verze Les Chenes 2023 (750ml)

2023 Release estimate arrive next week. Late July/Early August. Limited Stock, open for pre-order, and delivery while it's arrived. As always, mix any 6 of wine get 10% off on check out. 

Domaine Leflaive is one of the most highly-regarded producers of white wine in all of Burgundy. 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 of2024.

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.

Mâcon-Verzé Les Chênes
Clay-limestone terroir with little depth before reaching the bedrock. Gentle to very steep slopes. 3.43 ha located in the heart of the Verzé valley, “Les Chênes” comprises two south- west-facing parcels.