Leflaive Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 2014

99 points Tim Atkin, MW: "Chevalier’s position in the middle of the slope above Le Montrachet always seems to give it extra drive and acidity. Pear, peach, clove spice, subtle oak and plenty of leesy texture are underpinned by chiselled acidity. A wine that lingers on the palate, with mineral-edged tension and wave after wave of complex flavours. 2019-29. (2016)"

98 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The Domaine Leflaive 2014 Chevalier-Montrachet is magical. The bouquet delivers a blend of great purity and refinement, wafting from the glass in a mix of apple, pear, incipient notes of pastry cream, acacia blossoms, fresh almond, chalky minerality and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and utterly seamless, with great depth in the mid-palate, with great focus and grip, enormous backend energy and a laser-like, extremely long and youthful finish. This is a step up from the very beautiful examples of Bienvenues and Bâtard in the 2014 vintage! 2023-2060. (Nov/Dec 2015)"

98 points Decanter: "My (SB) wine of the vintage. It has a huge, intense nose of lime, pears and apricot with aromatic tension and complexity. A fine, assertive and extremely youthful attack: concentrated yet racy and very mineral from start to finish. A racehorse of a wine with amazing length and detail, and that classic, stony minerality. Drinking Window: 2020-2035."

98 points Jasper Morris, MW (Inside Burgundy): "Clear bright mid straw. There is a fresh lime component but also a beautiful floral aspect, but still very attractive. A wealth of intensity, this is glorious fruit and will hold together. Very long indeed, opulent for Chevalier but the balance is entirely there. First class. (May 2017)"

97 points Neal Martin (Wine Advocate): "Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting, Leflaive's 2014 Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru has a compelling bouquet that is full of flint and wet limestone scents, a subtle marine influence (seaweed and cockle shells perhaps?) filtering through with aeration. The palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, precise and very saline, fanning out with immense precision and poise on the finish. This is one of the standout wines of the vintage. (10/31/17)"

97 points Bruce Sanderson (Wine Spectator): "Vivid and tense, setting the stage for lemon verbena, green apple, nut oil, chalk and spice flavors. A hint of tannins is present on the long, bracing aftertaste. Racy and refined. Best from 2020 through 2032. 59 cases imported. (5/31/17)"

94-97 points Allen Meadows (Burghound): "There is a touch of mineral reduction that adds breadth to the wonderfully elegant and ultra-pure nose of various citrus and floral elements that are trimmed in just enough wood treatment to notice. There is a gorgeously refined mouth feel to the chiseled, intense and palate staining medium weight plus flavors that display an almost pungent minerality on the cool, harmonious and hugely long finish that is dry but remarkably not the least bit austere. This stunningly good effort is Zen-like in its sense of completeness and 2014 should make for one of the future great vintages of this storied wine. Note though that it is presently very structured and is going to require plenty of cellar time. Drink: 2029+. (Jun 2016)"

95.7 points CellarTracker.com community score.

95 points Stephen Tanzer (Vinous): "Bright yellow. Reticent nose smells softer than the Batard, offering scents of ripe stone fruits, grilled almond, ginger, smoke and musky white flowers. Big and plush in the mouth, conveying a considerably sweeter impression than the Batard. This wonderfully silky, seamless wine mounts in volume on the back half, finishing very ripe but dry, with splendid length. Perhaps not quite as taut and iodiney as it was from barrel a year ago but I'm just quibbling. Production here was just 33 hectoliters per hectare. Drink: 2022-2034. (Sep 2016)"

19/20 points Jasper Morris, MW (The World of Fine Wine): "Clear bright mid-straw. Fresh lime but also a beautiful floral aspect, still very attractive. A wealth of intensity, this is glorious fruit and will hold together. Very long indeed, opulent for Chevalier but the balance is there. First class. (Issue 58; 2017)"