2010 Jean-Marc Brocard Chablis 1er Cru Vau de Vey

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  7/28/2020 - Gas Station Wine Guy wrote: flawed

  Oxidized..

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  6/11/2014 - forceberry wrote: 92 Points

  Intense, deep lime green color. Quite characterful nose with aromas of flinty smoke and gunpowder, fresh green apples, some peach, a little bit of white flowers, a hint of pear and a green touch of herbal character and apple peel. The wine is bone-dry, medium-bodied and very racy on the palate with crisp, taut and very well-delineated flavors of lemony citrus fruits, tart green apples, herbal bitterness, some wet stone minerality and a hint of delicate white flowers. Overall the texture is really tightly-knit, thanks to the bracing acidity. The finish is long, crisp and quite taut with slightly green-toned flavors of Granny Smith apple, pithy grapefruit-driven citrus fruits, steely minerality, some wet stones, a little bit of gunpowder and a hint of green, herbal bitterness.
  
  A very tasty and impressively structured, but - above all - painfully young 1er Cru Chablis. Overall the wine shows remarkable, piercing minerality, tremendous focus and such nervousness you easily don't find even in Brocard's Grand Cru Chablis wines. This wine is much more closed and high-strung than the rounder and more approachable 1er Cru Fourchaume 2010 tasted alongside. A terrific wine, but there is no need to open up any bottles in the next 4-6 years; I can imagine the wine will keep - if not develop - even much further. Definitely a Chardonnay built for the long haul. Very highly recommended.

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  7/19/2013 - pbaek wrote:

  Like sticking your nose into the remains of an oyster shell and smelling the salty liquid, that's how the nose is here. Tight green fruit emerging, and some citrus lurking underneath. Expressive palate, with great clarity and purity of fruit combined with that saline character and a liquid sword of steel. This is oh so young but yet great Chablis. Brocard makes wonderfully pure and traditional Chablis. No oak. No nothing. Love it.

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  3/25/2013 - Mackmoo Likes this wine: 88 Points

  A little sweet on the palate compared to the Vaucopin.

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  3/2/2013 - EMichels wrote: 88 Points

  Nice but lacking depth; A touch metallic

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