• 2001 Domaine d’Auvenay (Lalou Bize-Leroy) Chevalier-Montrachet € 1.600.-
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I indeed bought mine for less than half of that… its an insane price…
I like yours better Johannes, can we share yours instead of Barry’s???
I’ve had it twice recently, once oxidized and once just ok…
Easy pass.
They do seem engaged on a dastardly plot to destabilise the world through hyperinflation at Leroy.
I love the idea that they were somehow sensibly priced previously at €800.
Dan, that’s half price! HALF PRICE!
They were a steal then and you should regret not purchasing the last offering.
Next stop, 2400?
Cheers,
fred
Is this a re-release? The 2001 chevy (along with the 2002) was here in NYC a few years ago. It lingered on shelves and got closed out for around $600 a bottle. I have a buddy who got a six pack of each and we opened an '02 recently. It was amazing.
[Edit: maybe I’m thinking of the criots?]
Leroy releases her wines in batches as I understand. The 2001 Chevalier Montrachet was offered here already over a year ago as well. She sells a few and keeps some behind which she then offers at a later stage at higher prices.
Drip feeding the market… keeping demand high and prices higher.
$600 for the 2001 Chevy seems an amazing price, it was Euro 800 here in the Europe when it was offered in the previous release.
According to the Côte d’Or rumour mill, the little slice of Bâtard-Montrachet she acquired recently set a new record at the equivalent of 25 million euros per hectare.
FWIW … for Domaine Leroy final average yields in 2010 were only 10 hl/ha !
100% up. No wonder my friend’s wine merchant agreed to take back his 4 bottles of 2001 Chevalier Montrachet after a bad premox run with the wine.
Martine picked a good time to sell.
Alex,
$600 would have been a good price even if it were the Criots. I’m jealous, her Chevalier is one of the white Burgs I’ve never had in any vintage. And given how much I love her Auxeys, not to mention the Puligny, can’t imagine the heights the Chevalier can reach.
Cheers,
-Robert
It’s not as good as the best Lefllaives are IMHO…I’d rather drink '01 Leflaive anyday.
Sytlistically perhaps closer to DRC Montrachet than anything else (rich, botrytis charecters), but no where near as good though…
and lots of oak.
Drink the wine…not the label. While I can understand wanting to try the top tier of a wine from a classic producer…but wines at this level (to me) are more about measuring something (insert penis jokes, mid-life crisis, and recent divorces here) and insecurity than knowledge.
She spends an inordinate amount of time and money to produce the wine, no doubt. And there isn’t much of it, so she has little by way of economies of scale to spread the costs over many bottles. Having said that, the prices now seem generally insane to me, particularly because her whites have been hit or miss for me. Many great, even amazing. But a few not so much. If you plan to drink these wines, how’d you like to spend $1500 for a Corton Charlie that is every bit the equal of an Henri Boillot, which can be had for $100 or so.
Also, I think buyers are partly and indirectly financing her new purchase of a few parcels in Batard Montrachet and Puligny Montrachet Eseigneres. I have no first hand knowledge of the price she paid, but I heard it was so high that someone joked she’d have to double the prices of her wines just to break even on the purchase.
FWIW, a lot of this is due to very low vine density. Many vines are dead or gone and she has not replanted.
alan
Domaine d’Auvenay Chevalier-Montrachet Vines (7/11/2012)
Kirk - do you drink a lot of Auvenay?
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