Montée de Tonnerre Chablis 1er Cru Chardonnay

There is Thunder on the Mountain

Peanuts on baking green apples. Nutty, earthy, round & snappy.

Spiced apple and peanut butter creme--mineral with a vanilla note, high acid tempered by round creamy mouthfeel. Stinky mineral notes began to develop as it warmed up.

Thunder Mountain farted. Just a lil bit. No premox, but a tad stanky. Otherwise clean, nicely developed and still got great cut.

A very nice start to our visit in Chablis.

14 is such a great Chablis vintage. Super ripe sweet fruit buttressed by zippy acidity. Really good wine.

2019

Powerful ripe citrus with enough of an acidic backbone to match. Shows some oak & texturally this has a richness to it. This delivers plenty of enjoyment in youth and the vineyard is a great one. Very good Chablis.

Just a perfect complement to a sushi/yakitori dinner - lovely but not heavy balance in acidity and oh so youthful! Having a little oak in Chablis is never a bad thing!

Took some time to balance out but decent blend of acidity, citrus and vanilla roundness (didn’t know this was done in oak)