2018 Chablis
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The 2018 Chablis Village is a wine that I find perplexing. It is quite "yeasty" in style and lacking the essence of mineral-driven Chablis. The palate is medium-bodied with a sharp entry, slightly bitter in style, and lacking some harmony toward the finish. I have enjoyed many wonderful bottles of Tribut’s Chablis in the past, but this left me scratching my head.
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Jeb Dunnuck
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I was only able to taste a single wine from Laurent Tribut, but this classy domaine fashions terrific wines across the board. Their 2018 Chablis is well worth seeking out and offers textbook notes of crushed citrus, golden apples, and flinty minerality as well as ample salinity and oyster shell-like nuances on the palate. Medium-bodied and beautifully balanced, with a seamless, elegant texture, this is a seriously classy Chablis that’s going to benefit from 3-4 years of bottle age and evolve for a decade or more.
The Tribut family's 2018 Chablis Village was showing well, displaying attractive aromas of citrus fruit, white flowers and toasted almonds. On the palate, it's medium-bodied, with good structuring extract and lively acids, concluding with a chalky finish. It had only been racked to barrel a month before I tasted it, so it's early days to make a definitive pronouncement, but it would appear to be one of the vintage's success stories.