Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru 'Champ Gain', Olivier Leflaive, 2025
Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru 'Champ Gain', Olivier Leflaive, 2025
- 75cl
- 13.5%
- White Still
- Chardonnay
- Organic
- Biodynamic
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Optimal drinking window: 2028 - 2038
Est. delivery in 2027
Champ Gain is one of Puligny's more southerly premiers crus, sitting closer to the Saint-Aubin border, and it tends to produce wines with a little more tension and saline edge than the richer, more flamboyant premiers crus higher up the slope. The raw material is excellent, and Olivier Leflaive's meticulous farming lets the site speak.
Champ Gain sits at the southern end of Puligny-Montrachet's premier cru belt, at around 250-280 metres altitude, where the slope begins to flatten slightly and the soils shift towards thinner, stonier limestone over a harder bedrock. The meagre topsoil here forces the vines to work hard, which concentrates flavour and produces wines with a characteristic saline, flinty minerality rather than the opulent richness you find in premiers crus like Les Pucelles. Exposure is broadly east to southeast, giving good morning sun without the heat accumulation that can soften the wine's natural tension.
Puligny-Montrachet is one of the Côte de Beaune's great white wine communes, home to four grands crus — including Le Montrachet and Bâtard-Montrachet — and eleven premiers crus. The appellation rules require 100% Chardonnay, and the best sites produce wines defined by a combination of richness and precision that is difficult to replicate elsewhere. Compared to neighbour Meursault, Puligny tends towards more linear, mineral expressions; compared to Chassagne-Montrachet, it generally offers more finesse and less weight.
The 2025 vintage in Burgundy remains a work in progress, with harvest only recently concluded and the wines still settling into their skins in cellars across the Côte d'Or. Early reports suggest a season that kept vignerons on their toes, though we're still waiting for the full picture to emerge as the wines complete their primary fermentation and malolactic conversion.
What we can say is that 2025 appears to be shaping up as a vintage that will require patience rather than immediate gratification. The reds seem to have good colour and structure, whilst the whites are showing promising acidity that should reward those willing to wait. We'd recommend holding fire on firm judgements until the wines have had proper time to show their true character, likely not until late 2026 at the earliest. For now, it's one to watch rather than one to declare.

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