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.

Very fresh with tons of citrus blossom, candied lemon and fine vanilla oak. Very focused and pretty concentrated with racy acidity that drives this along at a brisk clip, the stony minerality building at the very long, cool and complex finish. What a change of style for this world-famous domaine. Reminds me of their wines from the 1970s and early 1980s when they were young. From biodynamically grown grapes. Drink or hold.

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.

Great excitement on the nose! Such class. Lots of elements all knitting such refinement. Honey and blooms and the finest of white pebbles somehow, all making up a wonderful light show. Delicacy with undertow. Real lift! (JR)