Esprit Leflaive

Esprit LeflaiveNA

This isn’t especially dense but it’s certainly very pretty and has the structure to repay up to a decade of cellaring

it's a deep and marly clay soil that gives a big expression of fruit in a continental and sunny year such as 2009

yet supple

this is a combination of finesse

The tannins are silky and the extraction modest

high-toned and airy nose reflects notes of essence of red cherry

before I get to the tasting notes I’ll inject a few words about what does impress me about Powell

This is also built-to-age and a wine that should reward a decade plus

It has abundant fine-grained tannins and a dry

This is markedly floral with green tea elements adding breadth to the raspberry

with a long

A tribute to the ripeness and high tartaric acidity of these 2005s is that although well more than half of his lots of Riesling and Pinot Gris underwent malolactic transformation