Domaine Leflaive - Puligny Montrachet


2000 years of history




Puligny and Chassagne have Le Montrachet in common. They adopted the name in honour of this wine that should be tasted - according to the saying - on one's knees, head bared... All the good fairies gathered around the cradle, conferring on this Chardonnay all the graces and virtues. Puligny's origins appear to spring from a certain Puliniacus, who created his domaine here during the Gallo-Roman era. The birth of our vineyard in fact occurred 2000 years ago. Puligny's church was given to the powerful Cluny Abbey in 1095. The seigneury belonged at that time to the Mypont family. Following a ducal interlude at the time of Philippe le Hardi, it then belonged to the Jaquot family (Burgundian parliamentarians), to the Marquis d'Agrain, and so on. The Cistercian Abbey of Maizières, close by, also exploited the soil's best vines. These wines were recognised and celebrated beginning in the Early Middle Ages, and blossomed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The appellations d'origine contrôlée (AOCs) honour them today.




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Beatrice Leflaive

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