2016 Chablis Vaillons
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Lovely fresh apple fruit with punchy acid and full body – gets all the flavour of premier cru without losing the classic cool-climate structure. Lovely flinty element to the finish with a touch of hard cheese too. Delicious. (RH)
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Neal Martin
Richard Hemming MW, jancisrobinson.com
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(just 23 hectoliters per hectare produced): Pale yellow. A touch of mineral reduction to the aromas of apple, white peach and iodine. Silky and dense on entry, then creamy and deep in the middle, but with good saline mineral punch giving the wine an impression of thrust. The very long, bright, rising finish features a musky suggestion of quinine. With its concentration and balance, this is a superb premier cru in the making.
The 2016 Chablis 1Er Cru Vaillons comes from 3.5 hectares split over ten parcels in the heart of the premier cru. It has an attractive bouquet with scents of lime flower and wet granite. The palate is rounded and more supple than the Montmains, crisp and precise with lime and Granny Smith apple toward the finish. Fine.
The 2016 Chablis 1Er Cru Vaillons comes from 3.5 hectares split over ten parcels in the heart of the premier cru. It has an attractive bouquet with scents of lime flower and wet granite. The palate is rounded and more supple than the Montmains, crisp and precise with lime and Granny Smith apple toward the finish. Fine. Aug 2017, www.robertparker.com
About the producer
Established in the late 1950s, William Fèvre was one of the leaders in Chablis’s renaissance. Today he crafts benchmark expressions of fine Chardonnay from some of the top vineyard sites in the region, working with many of the best Premier and Grand Cru vineyards.