January 27, 2024 - Precise. Buttery for a Chablis. Nice now but will probably improve for many more years.
January 1, 2024 - From magnum. Still light straw with a clear green hue, still amazingly young. The nose is also dominated by primary fruit tones, mostly citrus like lemon, lime and grape, underlined by a clear chalky tone. Tight attack on the palate, high acidity, citrus fruit dominates the mid palate while some green apple tones emerge on the tight, chalky and fresh finish. Long aftertaste. These wines are not easy to like, and they evolve incredibly slow. When this wine will reach it's apex - if anytime - is impossible to know. However, this was my last bottle so I'll probably never know.
October 3, 2022 - A tasting of three grand crus (clos, preuses, vaudesir 2010) and two 1er crus (montee de tonnere and vaulorent 2012). This is still too young. Marked by a reductive note of flint and matchsticks when opened, less so than the other wines though. Giving way to apples, licorice, mint and chalk when it warms up. Medium bodied attack, fine fruit on the mid palate reminiscent of green apples, lemon and mint. Some tannic feel at the end, and a fresh finish. Somewhat short compared to the Montee de Tonnere, but much easier to drink at the moment. Almost mature.
October 17, 2021 - I have been skeptical towards the wines of Fevre for quite some years, so I stopped buying them. Thankfully, I saved some of the older wines, for instance this Vaulorent from the good to excellent 2012 vintage. The cork is incredibly long. Very light straw yellow, almost blank, but with streak of green. Very young appearance. Given the fact that Fevre uses old barrels, the nose is fascinating reminiscent of new oak: vanilla and some honey. Then the Chablis terroir kicks in: green apples, dust, chalk. Medium bodied, very high acidity in the attack (surprise!), lots of green apples, but also with a baked tone of vanilla and cinnamon. Everything comes together in a sleak, elegant, but a bit monolithic aftertaste dominated by green apples and again that baked vanilla feeling. Citrus dominates the finish. Believe it or not, but this wine is still too young. Keep for five more years to see what happens, or drink with fine shellfish like raw scallops or crabs.
June 25, 2021 - Sea, saliness, nice acidity, long finish. Everything you hope for in a premier cru.
March 12, 2021 - Classic and pleasing Chablis, gorgeously clear and pure in appearance. Lovely medium nose, grassy, sweetness, taut/tight - very fine.
February 27, 2021 - nose - grapefruit, iodine, fragrant nose
mouth - grapefruit but on the tropical spectrum, very expressive for chablis, juicy yet taut. impressive
November 5, 2020 - In line with the last bottle some months ago: Ripe fruit: Apple, lemon, seashells and iodine, pretty salty, excellent length and tension.
Still on the younger side and no risk anymore for premox with the DIAM corks they use since the 2010 vintage.
Fevre produces in general bone dry, crystalline and straight wines. Not everyone’s favorite, I suppose, but I admire them.
August 13, 2020 - N - caramel, iodine, seashell
M - iodine, lovely and not overripe. Sappy, and slightly green. Nice wine with mature bites. Drink soon IMHO.
July 20, 2020 - Blind, lemony, mineral zesty white reminds of Chablis which it was. Not much on the nose, quite tight, good freshness. 24 hours later, chalk, crushed stones, yellow apples and peaches, completely opened up. It’s growing on me. Will easily hold a decade. Wait a few more years before popping corks.