Fresh pale lemon yellow. There is immediate energy on the nose, yet with grace. Lime blossom fragrance, pleasing salinity, subtle nuances, a thoroughly enjoyable medium-plus bodied 2022. Drink from 2025-2028. Tasted Apr 2024.

Mid lemon yellow. There is gunflint reduction with a slightly oily character. Excellent tension, crystalline, still a touch of yellow plum in the fruit, supremely long finish. Not especially floral or white fruited, but a Puligny with drive and personality. Drink from 2026-2032. Tasted Apr 2024.

Pretty and fresh pale colour. Steely on the nose, all in white fruit, the limestone is not far away. There is excellent density to this Meursault from high on the Blagny hillside, a little lemon wash, crystalline in the mouth. Racy yet with depth. Drink from 2027-2034. Tasted Apr 2024.

Light lemon colour. Attractively floral, then a similar little wash of line. This is light on its feet, has the required density without an especial weight, with a pleasing length of finish. Drink from 2028-2035. Tasted Apr 2024.

A touch more colour and certainly more energy. Just a light gunflint reduction on pleasingly yellow fruit, yet with detail and subtlety. Here there is cream in the middle compared to the leaner clean cut Clavoillon. Softer at the finish but the generosity is balanced. Tangy touch to finish. Drink from 2028-2035. Tasted Apr 2024.

Pale in colour, with soft glossy white fruit, the pillow effect of classical Combettes. Team Leflaive have had to work hard to restore this vineyard to health, as it is a site that has suffered in hot dry conditions. There is fine life here though, with a proper mineral backbone, good juicy acidity, ripe fresh apples, in a finely woven texture. Very interesting. Drink from 2028-2035. Tasted Apr 2024.

Medium deep, pale yellow in colour. Plenty of fruit is immediately apparent on the nose, but seems a little more backward, less in harmony today. A mix of ripe citrus fruits, lemon, orange and grapefruit, so ripe enough. Then the 2022 Pucelles grows into what I would expect: really quite complex and with a zesty finale. Superb grace and length, with further volumes of fruit reappearing at the back. Keeps on going. Grand cru quality on the palate, and, taking the slight recalcitrance of the bouquet as a temporary issue, I am happy to award the full five stars to what should become a grand Pucelles. Drink from 2029-2038. Tasted Apr 2024.

Pale lemon yellow. An idea of velvet on the nose, a puree of fresh apples, a real concentration of pure white fruit on the palate with a rinse of lemon. Fine tension, nothing too oppressive in the weight, nuanced throughout. I wonder if the Bienvenues has quite the same length as the Pucelles. Yet the wine is detailed and surprisingly stony, Grand Cru from first sniff. Drink from 2029-2038. Tasted Apr 2024.

Solid, weighty, a little more colour, less grace than the Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet up front, yet with more muscles. That’s Bâtard for you. The nose goes into its shell a bit now. There is an enormous volume of bulky white fruit, even with some tannins. Density of another order here. A little crystalline acidity emerges at the finish. Drink from 2030-2040. Tasted Apr 2024.

Pale lemon. A light but fine bouquet, not immediately giving, though it soon begins to open out. This marches to a particularly fine beat, not the grace of Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet nor muscle of the Bâtard-Montrachet, but sheer class and a silkiness backed by the limestone freshness. Diamond detail, pure Chevalier! Drink from 2030-2040. Tasted Apr 2024.