2000 Chablis Les Clos
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Bright medium yellow. Aromas of lemon, fleur de sel , marzipan (from the oak?) and powdered stone lifted by violet and lavender high notes; shows just a trace of the lactic quality this wine displayed eight or ten years ago. Slightly edgy flavors of lemon and liquid-stone minerality are juicy and zesty but not thick or particularly concentrated, with notes of almond, chlorophyll and anise contributing complexity. This elegant grand cru displays terrific mid-palate energy and finishes with subtle rising length but is less broad and aromatic than the 2002. (I've read some comments about oxidation in Dauvissat's 2000s but my own extensive experience with this Clos, as well as Dauvissat's Les Preuses and La Forest, suggests that these wines are more likely to be lactic or reduced on first pour and need a good bit of aeration before they show their inherent purity.) (between 12% and 12.5% alcohol following chaptalization; about 4.3 g/l acidity; harvested on September 21; Dauvissat told me he began with about 80 hectoliters per hectare of fruit, "like in 1999")
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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The 2000 Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru from Dauvissat offers crushed stone and flecks of white chocolate on the nose, along with fleeting hints of yellow flowers and sea spray; pretty but not intellectual. The palate is supremely well balanced but much more gentle in style than its peers, and if truth be told, I am seeking more complexity on the rather conservative finish.
Deep greenish gold. Broad and creamy. Still a bit of wet wool and mealiness. Full, fully evolved, broad and so different from the Raveneau 1996. Waxy. (JR)
This is stylistically reminiscent of a great Chevalier as it is a perfect embodiment of fruit, minerality, extract and purity with picture perfect balancing acidity. The nose offers up only the slightest hints of intense citrus fruits and white flowers with ample sea breeze and oyster-shell character that leads to medium weight flavors dripping with liquid rock-like minerality and plenty of fat to buffer the bracing acidity. This offers a wonderfully seductive combination of finesse, elegance, power and simply unbelievable persistence. Breathtakingly good Chablis and extremely classy to boot and one that is just now coming into its own. I personally would wait another year, or even possibly two but you won't leave much on the table if one is opened now. Multiple, and consistent, notes.