4/12/2024 - bitdrerik wrote:

Eðalklúbbur. Vínsmakk apríl 2024. (Marbakkabraut 12): Þetta var nú líklega sísta vínið sem var opnað með osta og skinku smakkinu. Það var ágætt með sumum ostunum en týndist t.d. alveg með rocquefort ostinum. Engu að síður alveg ágætis vín.

4/5/2024 - ChiBurgDoc wrote:

Upon opening this had a nice round Chablis expression, with ripe orchard fruit and a bit of minerality. As it warmed it almost developed a sweetness, which was not particularly welcome. My advice would be to keep at cellar temp

3/18/2024 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Domaine des Malandes aux Grands Jours de Bourgogne 2024: Bel équilibre et pureté, avec une finale saline. Très bien. 91 pts

3/18/2024 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Domaine des Malandes aux Grands Jours de Bourgogne 2024: Très beau cru, frais et calcaire, c'est fin et équilibré. 92 pts

3/18/2024 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Domaine des Malandes aux Grands Jours de Bourgogne 2024: Un vin équilibré et fin, joli. Bon niveau. 90 pts

3/18/2024 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Domaine des Malandes aux Grands Jours de Bourgogne 2024: Très beau vin, frais et salin. Plus de matière, bon niveau pour un villages. 88-90 pts

3/18/2024 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Domaine des Malandes aux Grands Jours de Bourgogne 2024: Joli vin rond, frais et salin. 87 pts

3/18/2024 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Domaine des Malandes aux Grands Jours de Bourgogne 2024: Rond et frais, léger agréable. 86 pts

4/2/2024 - Fausto_Coppi Likes this wine:

well balanced fruity, dry white with clean acidity showing maturity and complexity.

3/31/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Faintly ripe aromatics, but this easily manages to avoid anything flabby. Mostly lean lemon and lemon with good enough weight, better length, and very good brightness from start-to-finish. While this is certainly on the simpler side for Chablis 1er Cru, it is textbook Chablis from a vintage where many others failed that metric.

3/18/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Les Portes d'Or de la Bourgogne - Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne (William Fèvre's Vineyards - Chablis): Walkaround tasting with producers. Just as big as Côte de Léchet, less balanced right now. Ripe green and yellow apple.

3/18/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Les Portes d'Or de la Bourgogne - Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne (William Fèvre's Vineyards - Chablis): Walkaround tasting with producers. Longer and leaner than Vau de Vey, I like the classic stylings here. Good+ length.

3/18/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Les Portes d'Or de la Bourgogne - Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne (William Fèvre's Vineyards - Chablis): Walkaround tasting with producers. Step up in both richness and textural energy. Tasty already with good 1er Cru density.

3/18/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Les Portes d'Or de la Bourgogne - Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne (William Fèvre's Vineyards - Chablis): Walkaround tasting with producers. Also some rich and tart, like the basic Chablis, but slightly more rich touches that should soften with a few years in bottle, 88-89 points.

3/18/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Les Portes d'Or de la Bourgogne - Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne (William Fèvre's Vineyards - Chablis): Walkaround tasting with producers. Classic orchard fruit throughout, bright and persistent. Easy to drink young, very good for its level.

3/18/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Les Portes d'Or de la Bourgogne - Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne (William Fèvre's Vineyards - Chablis): Walkaround tasting with producers. Good weight volume for its level, showing both tart and rich fruits. Good for its level.

3/23/2024 - mmcdds Likes this wine:

Nice enough, but tonight this bottle was just a little dilute and perhaps abit less interesting than I remembered from previous bottles.

3/3/2024 - markjanes wrote:

bright yellow with low to moderate depth of color. on the nose very typical chablis aromas of lemons and seashells. new barrique aromas are well integrated and mostly in the background. on the palate dry with high acids, tons of verve on the midpalate, finishes clean with low alcohol. balanced wine with very good length, excellent intensity, good complexity. wine has finesse, a very verve'y grand cru like texture, excellent expression of place. leftovers held up well the next day. Great Chablis, not the best Les Clos out there but is very GC. drink or hold 2-4.

3/3/2024 - pbaek wrote:

Golden color. As opposed to other oxi bottles this evening, this is just beautiful, mature Chablis with good freshness and flavours that are not associated with apple juice and sherry. This is lean with marks of green fruits, citrus even grass/hay. There’s a lack of depth and complexity perhaps but this is agréable. Chablis tasting with CG/Hasse/Finn.

3/3/2024 - pbaek wrote:

A much younger showing compared to the bottle I opened in 2017 and in need of air to open up. Deep and dark matter, spicy, salty, intense, toffee, butter notes, rich and complex - this is Clos from a generous vintage and drinking a point. There’s som bottle variation with the wines from Malandes, but when they are on, they are spectacular. Chablis tasting with CG/Hasse/Finn.

2/27/2024 - drrobvino wrote:

My final of 6 bottles, this 1er Cru Chablis is still showing quite nicely even at 10 yrs of age.
Lemon curd, green apple and herbal basil leaf, with some slate and minerals on the longish finish.
Nicely buttressed acidity, just getting slightly rounded. Drink through 2025+.

2/1/2024 - Guns and Rosés Likes this wine:

Pretty simple but good enough with a chill

1/26/2024 - StefanVB wrote:

Een mix van exotische fruitaroma's. Complex en erg fris. Aanhoudend in de mond.

12/25/2023 - A1002 Likes this wine:

Pale grey in hue. Apple and peach on a nose underlined by chalky and stony minerality.

Clear cut on the palate. Very pure, linear and cool. Textbook Chablis and a good place to start for the immediate mineral feeling. Good length.

12/21/2023 - fitzgri Likes this wine:

delicious with bright yet buttery green apple

12/18/2023 - prasm Likes this wine:

Consumed over 2 days (stored in Somm du Vin), note from day 2. Appearance: Clear, medium lemon. Nose: Clean, medium intensity with aromas of green apple, Asian pear, lime, and chamomile with hints of saline and fresh biscuits. Palate: Dry, medium+ acid, medium intensity, medium body with a pleasingly smooth mouth-feel, 13.0% abv with developing flavors green apple, Asian pear, and saline with a medium+ finish.

Balance: Excellent
Length: Excellent
Intensity: Very good
Complexity: Excellent

Overall, an excellent wine excelling in balance and complexity. Still quite youthful, likely 2-3 years from peak with 5+ years of good drinking thereafter.

12/15/2023 - N.Bonaparte wrote:

1st of 12. Needed 2 hours in the glass to open up and continued to improve throughout the night. This is a full bodied, well balanced wine with quite a bit of up front tart fruit suggesting how young this is. The finish is long. My first time with this domaine and I’m impressed. Hard to find better value in burgundy, especially given the vintage and vineyard. This is still 3-5 years out from its prime and will easily drink well for 2 decades. Revisit 2025.

12/12/2023 - lake.vino Likes this wine:

Oh wow. This retains every bit of quality and complexity I’ve enjoyed over the years. Briny, oyster shells, lemon, mineral, seawater. Palate a bit richer, with intense acid and big mineral texture. Long finish. This is truly great wine.

11/19/2023 - DrELW Likes this wine:

This is a vivid, medium, greenish straw colored wine. The nose does not give away very much. Across the palate I get the typical apple, pear, grapefruit, lime, and honeysuckle flavors. There is a light indication of oak on the finish with slight almond and vanilla flavors. This wine has a rich consistency with ample body. The finish is fresh with racy acidity and some chalk. There's a slight amount of astringency on the finish that tastes like some stems were included. This is a good, varietal wine.

11/9/2023 - Nanda wrote:

Classic and firing on all cylinders. At peak.

11/6/2023 - kabert Likes this wine:

Still delicious. Not a tart lemon bombshell like the Les Clos but very enjoyable. More on the creamy lemon with a hint of age side of things. Excellent on its own and with dinner.

11/1/2023 - Charlie C Likes this wine:

Pale but vibrant yellow color. Minerals abound on the nose with lemon/lime notes. Precise and delightful on the palate, lemon, crushed seashells, hint of pepper. Rosemary notes creep in. Beautiful acidity, fabulous balance. A steely mouthfeel. Becomes brighter and shows more lemon notes with air. Finishes long, long with minerals, melons, lemons. Great wine and not even at peak. If you can wait, give it 2 to 3 more years. It will drink well for 6 to 8 years.

10/26/2023 - aajder wrote:

Great color. The nose shows fragrant aromas of orchard fruits, white flowers, minerals, sea spray and some lactic creaminess. This is medium full bodied on the palate with excellent concentration and real class. The long finish features a strong mineral element and serious extract. Needs four or five years to show its best...

10/15/2023 - csimm wrote:

Solid wine. Fresh and lively lemon juice and citrus zest notes. Some travertine peeks through, but this is just starting its journey. Though certainly accessible now, it needs at least a handful of years to develop more complexity and layered depth. Currently, it's primary and linear, with a bit of reduction and wood lingering, albeit still quite refreshing.

Sealed with DIAM 10; so, you can let your bottles chill on their sides for a bit without biting your nails over potential premox issues. Ideally, hold until at least after 2026+ (shoot for 2030 if you're patient).

10/8/2023 - isbjoern wrote:

Acidic citrus flavors, bitter grapefruit, yellow apples, pears, intensely mineral with an almost metallic touch to it, crisp acidity, just a hint of oak adding some nut flavors, sleek body and average length. Overall a tart and mineral Chablis, but not very complex for a 1er Cru. I'd give it an additional 2-3 years to develop more flavors. Would not have guessed it is from the hot 2018 vintage; tasted much racier than I expected. Diam10 closure. - 89 points

10/7/2023 - jayw Likes this wine:

Vibrant lemon character with soft apple notes and briny minerality. Delicious, balanced Chardonnay. Wish I had more of these.

9/30/2023 - Alykhan V Likes this wine:

Superb stuff
P&P
Initially, dried lemons and pronounced minerality. As it warms up, lots of white flower aromas. Round mouthfeel with a lightning bolt of acidity. Subtle new oak. Lots of minerality on the palate. Wine is much more interesting and complex on the palate than the nose. Although I wouldn't describe this as a fat wine, it's definitely richer than it is lean or precise.
Truly outstandings length. This really is an excellent Chablis GC. Drink now or over the next 5 years

Left 2/3 empty bottle in fridge under cork and reopened today (2 weeks later):
Dried lemons and mushrooms and candied lemons on the nose. Still aromatically quite intense, especially the candied notes
The texture is a little thinner but still very enjoyable
I actually think this wine can be much more long lived than I initially assumed

5/30/2022 - Paul S wrote:

Dinner at San Shu Gong (San Shu Gong, Geylang, Singapore): This was very enjoyable. Not perfect, and nothing to write home about, but a bottle that went down very easily. It was no slouch in terms of sheer quality either. The nose was a nice marriage of the mineral, stone and citrus lemon aromas one normally associates with Chablis in general alongside riper tropical fruit smells that one sometimes gets from Les Clos. The only thing that threw me off was the overly woody overtone at the fringes of the bouquet, with tons of sweet oak rather distracting from the nicer elements of the nose. That apart, it was quite attractive. The palate was round and full, and very Les Clos in the way it showed a lovely weight, nicely counterbalanced by a spine of bracing acidity. Here, I got a white fruited attack moving into a nice lemon and blood-orange mid plate, and then a lovely line of minerality that came to the fore on the finish along with some of that new oak that was so pronounced on the nose. I really liked the freshness and cut on the wine. Not the most complex Les Clos out there, and there was always that oaky shadow to contend with, but this was all-in-all a really nice wine. While drinking well now, it should improve with a few years in the bottle - unless the fruit starts sinking under the oak.

8/28/2019 - SuperSomm wrote:

Medium lemon colour. Light nose with green apples, lemon, wet stone and yoghurt. Taste of green apples, lemon, nuts and yoghurt. Long and dry finish. Medium acidity and body. Pronounced flavour. A very good Chablis 1er Cru. Goes well with fish or shellfish.

3/3/2022 - SuperSomm wrote:

Pale lemon colour. Medium and youthful nose with green apples, white peach, ripe lemon and wet stone. Medium taste of green apples, white peach, ripe lemon and wet stone. Long and dry finish. High acidity. Medium body. A very good Chablis in a fruity style. Drink now or over the next couple of years. Goes well with fish or shellfish.

9/3/2023 - wwolf1 Likes this wine:

Tres bon chablis, pas très sec mais très parfumé, pas d'amertume, de lq fraicheur. Tres bien.
15/20

8/28/2023 - sastewart wrote:

First bottle of 4. Still young. Nice nose of green apple and citrus. Richer style good fruit and a solid core of acid. Very good for its level. Solid 90 with room for improvement

8/14/2023 - vinojones wrote:

pale yellow;closed, mild floral/herbal notes; acidic palate but finish is smooth. Would be a good seafood, lite summer dish

1/16/2023 - kostaslonis wrote:

90+ Wine Club, Chablis blind tasting (Monk restaurant): spicy, lemon peel, grapefruit, green, high acidity, pear, tight texture, almost tannic, full body and long finish

7/26/2023 - vlzat wrote:

Medium body, clean golden colour. Intense orchard fruits, mango notes, spices and dried flowers aroma. Predominantly mineral and nutty palate, soaked apples and pears palate following by gentle acidity and creamy finish of good length. Complex and balanced, still fresh. Food friendly, well pairing to crayfish. Open half hour ahead. Serve 12ºC - 14ºC. Drink now and the next three/four years.

7/15/2023 - Pour Boy Likes this wine:

Perfect companion for a summer evening on the deck with friends.

6/30/2023 - Bill and Tina Likes this wine:

Nice surprise so few bottles in cellars. We loved it. Glad we have 3 left

Crisp refreshing

6/5/2023 - jlm wrote:

This was an odd experience. The aromatics seem simultaneously over and underripe, with both pineapple and melon as well as a grassy note. The palate is also hollow in the middle. This isn't flawed or undrinkable, but it just isn't very good.

6/9/2023 - MosheDehsoM Likes this wine:

Wonderful Chablis, so wonderful that I am now searching for a place to buy more (not for the thieves where I bought it from).

Clear bright pale yellow color. Love it 👏

Light body. Medium acidity. Mineral and crispy. Very enjoyable & rewarding. long sweet sour ending 👏

Beautifully aromatic, lavender, citrus, grass.

Palate: omplex, rich yet not too intense or rough. Citrus, lemon, oranges, lime, pineapple, kiwi, mango, apple, melon, apricot, honey, salt, minerals.

Love it. Will definitely buy more.

Cheers 🥂

5/22/2023 - bitdrerik wrote:

Eðalklúbburinn í Búrgundarhéraðinu.; 5/21/2023-5/27/2023 (Búrgundarhéraðið.): Að koma á eftir Fourchome víninu og standa uppi í hárinu á því var ekki auðvelt verkefni. Les Clos Grand Cru vínið gerði það samt með glæsibrag.
Í nefi mjög opið. Dökkir tónar. Vanilla, möndlur, amaretto, koníak. Samt allt mjög ferskt. í lokin mátti greina núggat og súkkulaði eins og í víninu á undan.
Svipaðir tónar komu svo fram á tungunni. Möndlur, mikill ferskleiki, súkkulaði og núggat. Mjög flott jafnvægi. Virkilega gott vín.