Domaines Leflaive, Mâconnais
Domaines Leflaive, Pouilly-Fuissé
Domaines Leflaive cultivates 2.16 hectares in the appellation Pouilly-Fuissé. Pouilly-Fuissé, the flagship region of the Mâconnais, is cordoned to the west by a flotilla of prow-shaped rocks, of which the Rock of Solutré is the most famous. (At the base of this cliff is a Stone Age archaeological site containing the skeletons of over 100,000 horses — which gives the name to the archaeologic era of the Solutrian.) The bowl at the foot of the Rock of Solutré is the heartland of the Pouilly-Fuissé appellation, with some of the best soil forming strata on which Chardonnay grows in all of Burgundy. Composed of fossiliferous marl and marly limestone, the area was under the shallow Jurassic sea millions of years ago.
Vintage Factsheets
A blend of 12 parcels located around the Roche de Solutré, with south-east to south-west exposure, planted in shallow clay-limestone soils.
- Region
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Mâconnais
- Sub-Appellation
- Pouilly-Fuissé AOP
- Varietal Composition
- Chardonnay
- Aging
- Vinification takes place in vats, and ageing lasts from 15 to 16 months. Pressing: Long, gentle pneumatic pressing, 24- hour settling, followed by racking. Fermentations: 25% in cement eggs and 75% in oak barrels, 15% of which are new.
- Alcohol
- 13.25%
There’s fine concentration to this white, lending viscosity to the texture and embracing flavors of peach, white flowers and honeydew melon. Light baking spice and pastry notes linger on the finish.
Wine Spectator
91 Points
2022
“There's fine concentration to this white, lending viscosity to the texture and embracing flavors of peach, white flowers and honeydew melon. Light baking spice and pastry notes linger on the finish”
— Bruce Sanderson, 2024
