Domain Leflaive Clavoillons 1998 Half Bottle (37,5cl)
The 1998 Domaine Leflaive Clavoillons is a white Burgundy wine produced in the Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru appellation. Made from 100% Chardonnay, it comes from the Les Clavoillons plot, classified as a premier cru. The estate owns more than 85% of this 4.79-hectare climat, giving this cuvée a particularly strong connection to this Puligny-Montrachet terroir. The plot is farmed biodynamically by Domaine Leflaive.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Half Bottle (37,5cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Puligny Montrachet
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Leflaive
- Parcelle / Cru
- Les Clavoillons
- Millésime
- 1998
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Chardonnay
Domaine Leflaive
Domaine Leflaive is a family-run estate based in Puligny-Montrachet, in the heart of the Côte de Beaune. It cultivates 24 hectares of Chardonnay, spread across the appellations of Puligny-Montrachet, Meursault, Chassagne-Montrachet and several grands crus. The estate is run by Brice de La Morandière, representing the fourth generation linked to the Leflaive family.
- Owner
- Famille Leflaive
- Maître de chais
- Amandine Brillanceau
- Surface (ha)
- 24.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 120 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The Leflaive family has been based in Puligny-Montrachet since 1717 and at that time owned a few vineyards, the grapes from which were sold. The estate in its modern form was established by Joseph Leflaive (1870–1953), an engineer by training, who returned to manage the family estate following the phylloxera crisis. From 1920 onwards, he embarked on a programme of replanting, acquiring and developing the vineyards, with the support of his estate manager, François Virot. He gradually began marketing the wines under his own label, whilst the first bottles were exported to the United States between 1932 and 1939. Following his death in 1953, his children Jo, Jeanne, Anne and Vincent kept the estate together and established a civil partnership in 1973. Jo took charge of administration and finances, whilst Vincent oversaw the vineyard, the wines and their marketing. Olivier Leflaive became co-manager alongside Vincent in 1986, then Anne-Claude Leflaive joined the management team in 1990 before being appointed manager in 1994. Under her leadership, the estate gradually adopted biodynamic farming during the 1990s. Following her death in April 2015, her nephew Brice de La Morandière, the great-grandson of Joseph Leflaive, became managing partner. Since January 2025, Amandine Brillanceau has held the post of technical director; Louis Brière is cellar master at Puligny-Montrachet.
Les Clavoillons
The climat officially named "Clavaillon", also commercialized under the forms "Clavoillon" or "Les Clavoillons", belongs to the delimited area of Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru. It is located near the climats Les Pucelles, Les Perrières and Les Referts, in the mid-slope sector of Puligny-Montrachet. Consulted sources describe limestone or clay-limestone terroirs at the appellation scale oriented globally towards the east and south-east, but do not provide an exhaustive pedological characterization covering exactly all of Clavaillon.
- Vineyard commune
- Puligny-Montrachet
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 4.690000 ha
- Vineyard holding status
- Owner, contiguous parcel
- Indicative vine age
- Parcels planted in 1962, 1972, 1973, 1981, 1983, 1988 and 2012.
Histoire de la parcelle
A vineyard named "Clavaillon" in Puligny is explicitly attested in a document dated February 13, 1754, kept in the departmental archives of Côte-d'Or. The name "Clavaillon" appears today in the AOC specifications among the climats that can complement the Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru denomination. The spelling "Clavoillon", notably used by Domaine Leflaive, constitutes a customary variant of the same climat.
