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Bienvenues Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru – 2009 – 95 points, A Year’s Best White Burgundy – Wine & Spirits
95 points

“Tucked into the lower, northern corner of Bâtard, Bienvenues holds some of Domaine Leflaive’s oldest vines, 2.84 acres planted in 1958 and ’59. It was in an effort to sustain those vines that Anne-Claude Leflaive and Pierre Morey turned to Biodynamics in the early 1990s, their success leading them to convert the entire domaine in 1997. The root systems of those ancient vines focus this wine more on its soil character than its grand cru siblings, with their sunnier dispositions. This leads you on with floral scents of honeycomb and vanilla, then sucks you down through layer upon layer of earth, brightness and darkness in flashes of delicacy and brooding power. While the Bâtard is blunt in its richness, this is energized in its terroir expression, as if to share the insistence of Madame Leflaive herself that these 50-year old vines will persevere.”

Audrey Marek, July 18, 2017
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Bienvenues Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru – 2009 – 95 points, A Year’s Best White Burgundy – Wine & Spirits