October 9, 2023 - Elegant, calm, waxy, poetic rather than intense.
August 14, 2023 - Light Gold-ish color; caramel, lemon pledge, super tangy, flral, heady, med.+ body with super intensity; lovely elegant yet powerful and long. Tied for #1 with my 07 Dauvissat Preuse. DD, Capital Seafood BH
September 23, 2022 - Having selected Raveneau Valmur of the same vintage the prior night I thought it’d be fun to compare Dauvissat’s Clos. Also with a requested pre-dinner decant, it’s fresh, classic in style, seamlessly balanced between power and elegance and highly aromatic with layers of yellow orchard fruit, citrus blossoms, beeswax and stony minerals. The palate is rich, but not as dense and textural as the Raveneau was, but shows great purity and focus with racy citrusy acids, a sea spray-like salinity and a long mineral inflicted finale. Excellent.
June 10, 2022 - (at Magdalena - Baltimore) Herbal, ocean, young coiled. Got significantly better with air. (95++)
January 15, 2022 - Three Chardonnays at home (Wellington, NZ): In my cellar, the bottle seemed to have a protruding cork, so I opened it that night. Drunk over three evenings, during which it barely changed. Drinking cleanly, with no faults. A Grand Cru Chablis bouquet of white flowers, fine lemon citrus, oyster shell, tide pool, some pear and a touch of spicy oak. In the mouth, classic Les Clos. Serious scale, concentration, structure and length. The flavours were chalky, wet limestone mineral, lemon and grapefruit citrus, iodine and sea breeze. No oak artefact. Long finish with lovely salinity. Relatively open and accessible, yet still fairly young and primary, ideally hold until about 2025.
September 10, 2021 - Dauvissat's 2016 Clos is surprisingly accessible and unsurprisingly good with a nose that, while certainly ripe, shows plenty of Chablisien character with white florals and sea breeze both dialed up to eleven. Intensely concentrated on the palate, where again there's certainly a richness to this wine but significant acidity and classic structure yield a lively vibrancy. Large upside but very good today.
February 9, 2021 - Initially pretty closed down. Pretty straight forward chardonnay fruit, good acidity. I"m not sure I get the complexity to warrant the price, but it was a tasty bottle. Give it lots of air if drinking in the near term.
October 17, 2020 - First day pretty closed down. Opened up with some air but not really singing yet. Saved half the bottle for the next day. My,my, what a difference a day makes. Creamy apple and lemon rind. Piercing acidity, salinity and minerality. Still young but it’s pedigree is definitely showing. Room for upside for sure.
January 24, 2020 - Crunchy, bright and super fun to drink.
April 18, 2019 - Very mineral and acidic with lemon peel, rock, seashell and minerals. Precise and sharp but still one dimesnional at this stage. Nowhere as complex or deep as the 07 Raveneau Blanchots.