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Location: Puligny-Montrachet, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy
Founder: Joseph Leflaive
Vineyard area: 22 ha
Wines: Grand Cru – Montrachet, Chevalier-Montrachet, Bâtard-Montrachet, Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet; Premier Cru – Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles, Folatières, Les Combettes, Le Clavoillon, Meursault sous le Dos d’Âne; Village – Puligny-Montrachet; Bourgogne blanc

Wine shops around the world have seen a sharp increase in online activity this past month, with multiple retailers describing the demand as simila...

The power balance in the fine wine market has continued to shift throughout the first quarter of the year. Buyers’ interests have been changing, re...

Owner: Sichel and Mahler-Besse families1855 Classification: Third GrowthThe Liv-ex Classification 2019: Second TierVineyard area: 66 haColour: Re...

Wine became a staple of the new working from home norm this week. Many shelves were emptied, and wine racks filled, in anticipation of being indoo...

The primeurs or futures campaign involves a tiny fraction of the overall production, however, so it can also be useful to understand the bigger picture of Bordeaux – or, indeed, the map. Few people realise just how much wine is made here, so below I show where 650 million bottles in 2019, or their equivalent, are sourced from.

Experts say the newly released 2016 vintage of Piedmontese wines is almost miraculously good

Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill 2009 was released 3% lower than the 2008 vintage release. The 2009 Sir Winston Churchill is the 18th available vin...

Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva 904, 2011 released with a 7.7% increase from the 2010 release. The 2011 is only the eighth vintage in the past 50 yea...

Global equities have taken a severe hit this past week as Covid-19 has continued to spread globally. With every small piece of fresh news adding to the uncertainty, finding calm waters has been challenge. But as you can see in the chart above, fine wine has been almost boringly stable.