Domaine Leflaive
Justifiably one of the most famous estates in Burgundy for white wines, the domaine made massive improvements under the sadly missed leadership of Anne-Claude. One of the first domaines to convert to the biodynamic approach and, more recently, reducing the proportion of new oak used in the relatively long elevage has seemed to improve both the transparency and approachability of the wines.
The results can be sensational - wines of great concentration combined with precision. The Chevalier-Montrachet is one of the benchmark wines of the world, not just of Burgundy - a wine as Clive Coates put it "to drink on bended knee".
