New Delhi, April 14 -- The greatest white wine commune on earth." So did Clive Coates MW describe the 230-hectare commune of Puligny-Montrachet in Burgundy. Winemakers able to make wine on this slice of land, a heartbeat away from Beaune, Burgundy's wine capital, regard themselves as inheritors of a rare legacy. And so it is with Olivier Leflaive, a name widely recognized in the region.

The story began when Olivier Leflaive, scion of the multi-generational Leflaive wine family, returned to Burgundy after a stint in Paris to join the family business at Domaine Leflaive. In 1984, he decided to set up an eponymous negociant (merchant) house, Maison Olivier Leflaive and buy-in grapes from other select vineyards even as he developed his own. ...