Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Tank sample. A clear step up in complexity and scale. The nose combines classic Chablis minerality with a deeper fruit profile than the Côte de Léchet, showing green apple, Granny Smith, sweet lime, crushed stone, and remarkable purity. Still unmistakably old-school Chablis in style, but with more flesh and breadth wrapped around the mineral core.

The palate is spectacular. Concentrated, sapid, and intensely structured, with tremendous depth and persistence. Where Côte de Léchet feels like a mineral storm, Vaillons presents similar intensity through fruit, texture, and architecture. The fruit is layered and juicy, but the structure is impossible to miss, carrying the wine across a long, powerful finish that feels built for decades rather than years. The minerality remains firmly in place, but everything is broader, deeper, and more complete. Still extremely young, but already showing the balance, concentration, and authority of a serious Premier Cru. A brilliant Vaillons and one that should reward long-term patience. — 24 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Really terrific nose. Green apple, wet earth, so many stones and just bright and alive. Really gorgeous nose. Palate is full of energy and crackle. Terrific acidity and freshness and so much minerality. Rich yet extremely tensile. Juicy like nobody’s business and an extraordinary finish. 9.2 for now but pushing 9.3. — 24 days ago

Galen Hasler

9.0

Mild acidity fruits of lemon and minerals — 3 years ago

Rob M

9.0

From 6ft, lovely fizz and fruity, good balance with acid and hint of tannens on the end — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.1

Unreal nose. Just so beautiful. Huge perfume. Seashells. Oyster shells. Unmistakably Chablis. So so mineral. There is no fruit. An exercise in a blast of terroir so intense you gotta be a wine geek to enjoy it. Salty. White pepper. A perfume that is broad and precise. Really really beautiful. Palate terrific and has some ripe fruit, green apple mostly, a nice hit of richness in the texture, good purity and a lonely initial blast of fruit/mineral concentrate and then the finish is all seashells that linger. Excellent wine for the appellation.

As it airs it picks up weight on the palate. Terrific wine for no money. So salty and fresh. — 6 years ago

Kyle Harvey

9.1

Never a bad time for a good friend. Crunchy strawberries. — 7 years ago

Andrew Lohse

8.9

Funk for days, some effervescence on the palate. Earthy and well-fruited / super fun — 8 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Tank sample. Explosive classic Chablis nose, almost all mineral and brine, with seashell, Kimmeridgian limestone, wet stone, and only faint hints of lemon and lime underneath. Almost no fruit in the obvious sense. This is a mineral blizzard, wildly expressive and completely old-school, like 1950s-style Chablis wired to a power station.

The palate is stunningly concentrated, with serious acidity, but also real body, density, and richness. It has the electricity and structure of a great acid vintage, but the flesh and substance to carry it. Briny, stony, deep, and intensely architectural, with waves of seashell minerality rushing through the finish. The acidity clamps down at the end and brings everything into sharp, thrilling focus. Very young, obviously, but already gorgeous in its purity and intensity. A serious 25-year Côte de Léchet in the making. — 24 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Easily the most complete wine in the range today. The nose is all class: elegant oyster shell, brine, crushed stone and sea air, but presented with extraordinary lift and refinement. The fruit is the most expressive of the premier crus, yet nothing feels heavy or obvious. The palate is seamless, combining juicy concentration, unctuous texture and remarkable purity. No hard edges anywhere. Everything flows. The concrete egg seems to amplify harmony rather than richness, giving the wine incredible breadth while preserving its Chablis soul. The finish is already long and complex, though still showing a touch of youthful awkwardness that should disappear with time. A wine of real finesse and sophistication. 9.5 with upside. — 24 days ago

Taylar Hart

8.9

Had a grilled peach nose or something a bit savory. Tasted similarly. @Comice Paris with scallop carpacio — 3 years ago

Jay Kline

9.0

I’ve had this bottle sitting in my cellar pretty much since I got back from Riyadh, nearly 7 years ago. I’m not really sure why I held onto it as long as I did but whatever. It’s open now. In the glass, the wine pours a brilliant, deep golden color. A fully mature wine at this point with a whole host of secondary and tertiary characteristics on the nose: toasted bread, apricot marmalade, feta cheese, nuts, Vanilla Tootsie Roll (the blue wrapper), sour dough, desiccated tropical fruit, warm asphalt, and alfalfa. A truly strange combination but it’s all there, whether you want it to be or not. On the palate, dried apricot, flan, and cashews. Medium acid. The finish is long. At this later stage of its life, the 2010 Jean & Sebastien Dauvissat “Vaillons” is not a wine for everyone as there will no doubt be folks who’s palate will not agree with the oxidative character of the wine. That being said, I found it rather charming. Drink now. — 5 years ago

Jean-Phillippe Landry

9.0

Very very good! — 6 years ago

Joel Neal

8.9

Very bright, citrus, lime, wet rock. Good price for petit Chablis. — 8 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Classic Chablis turned up several notches. The nose is pure and expressive, showing lemon, green apple, sea air, crushed stone, and a distinctly maritime character, but with more flesh and ripeness than expected. There is real fruit here, not just minerality, and it gives the wine an inviting generosity without sacrificing tension.

The palate is where 2025 announces itself. Huge energy, huge acidity, and remarkable concentration. This is electric Chablis. The fruit is bright and mouthwatering, but the acidity drives everything forward, carrying waves of limestone, oyster shell, and mineral intensity across an exceptionally long finish. There is real depth and persistence here, flirting with Premier Cru quality at times, while remaining unmistakably village Chablis in character. A textbook expression of the appellation, full of nerve, precision, and classic Dampt tension. One of the strongest examples of this bottling I can remember tasting. — 24 days ago

Andrea Watt

9.0

Light with lemon zest and grapefruit but balanced. — 7 days ago

Angela Sanks

10

Obsessed. — 3 months ago

Maxime Connor

9.0

Easter bubbles! — 4 years ago

Justin M

9.5

Beeswax champagne — 6 years ago

Ely Cohn

9.3

I’ve heard for years about the wildly extroverted and extra-ordinary Sancerre wines from Sebastien Riffault. His wines are an outlier of ripeness in a sea of lean high acid chalky juice. Rich with an amber glow.

He picks his Sauvignon Blanc at the last minute to reach a level of ripeness you’d never expect could come from the tiny cold pocket of the Loire.

Now I like both styles, but this is super fun and something completely new to me.

Think juicy peach, fresh apricot, and bright yellow pineapple. But still with high acid - nothing flabby. — 6 years ago

Todd Stone

9.0

Carmine gave us just what we asked for: a lighter to medium body red with low tannins and mild earth. This fit the ticket perfectly- a delicious French wine in an Italian restaurant! — 8 years ago

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