Les Clos Chablis Grand Cru Chardonnay

Awesome with oysters and Maryland Rockfish.

Funky at first, then turned rather hedonistic. Round yet grippy Chablis that’s perfect with porcini-based pasta.

A great great wine but outshined on the night.

Opulent mineral lactic acidity; faint white fruits.

Didn't blow my skirt up in the way I had hoped. Maybe I need a more specific blowing... Solid dauvissat though

Chablissssse. Mort de rires

Hints of honey, sea shells, slate and salt. From mag. Just needs more time.

Corked. Obviously not what usually lives in this bottle.

2022/5/13 with zukedon, etc. From a half-bottle, bought on release. Bright yellow-gold. On the nose this has developed that honeyed note which only comes from cold northern Chardonnay with some age. There’s also steel and stone. The palate is very intense - it starts with more honey and perhaps some candied citrus peel, but more chalk and steel quickly take prominence. This is a powerfully mineral, dry, salty, alkaline wine - like most 2006s from all over Burgundy, the acidity feels on the low side (though it’s there at the edges of the mouth), and this isn’t about fruit either (with the main fruit note from the mid palate onwards being bitter citrus oils). Bracing, fascinating.

Corkage at uchu kaiseki. Very good bottle. Ginger, citrus rind, and stony on the backend. Long finish