"Les Vaillons" Chablis 1er Cru Chardonnay

Nose is rich and mineral with lime blossom, some vulcanized rubber, candied limes and lemon zest, green apple skins, honeysuckle the faintest hint. Chewy and dense with brilliant energy and freshness. Great cut and energy and super clean. Big concentration and slathers your palate with minerals. Finishes with terrific persistence and length. This is just so classic and has almost no fruit and wonderful mineral and persistence. Great structure for aging.

Solid. Consistent. Really like this balanced Chablis.

Still having great luck with this bottle. Third one in a month. Will slow down a bit but it really has great balance.

Great balance. Consistently good wine.

Still a bit closed. Will reassess again in about a year...

Huge super expressive nose, Gorgeous purity and mineral depth. Pear, apple, such layering. Seashells. Rich and expansive but unabashedly Vaillons. Rich, ripe and expansive with gorgeous fruit inflected with intense minerality. Such a nice contrast. Balanced, mineral and so long with a midpalate one can get lost in. Terrific.

Lovely. Ripe than the Lechet but also has the requisite intense Kimmeridgian minerality. Dazzlingly pure with insane depth and length. Amazing texture and all out mineral assault On the palate but becomes super juicy and so delineated and elegant on the insanely mineral finish. Terrific pear and Apple fruit that support the minerality.

Laser focused. Quite young, but the 14’s are easy to approach.

What a killer Vaillons. This is insane. Perfumed nose of classic oyster shell, some nice green apple fruit and Meyer lemon. Smokey, saline, refined and even some apple butter. Great aromas. So refined and clean. Almost feels like there is so much more. Palate is so epic and deep with grace, depth and refinement. Juicy and serene with a sweetness the oyster juice quality. More west coast than east coast. So pure, resonant and long. What a great vintage 2014 is.

This is a real triumph - a wine with Chablis’ textbook acidity that still conveys lovely ripeness. Green and golden apple, green pear, lemon peel, flint, wet stone. There is a wonderfully silky texture and roundness to this wine that belies the fact it was raised entirely in stainless steel.