2007 François Raveneau Chablis 1er Cru Butteaux

Community Tasting Notes (88) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  10/7/2023 - Dibbs Likes this wine: 96 Points

  What a wine! My WOTN although it got muted at the end of the night. But at the beginning I couldn’t move away from this wine. It had this beautiful texture of lemon lime custard tart without the sweetness. Magnificent and need to buy these!!

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  10/6/2023 - wineton.mee wrote: 94 Points

  Greek yoghurt, lemon oil, iodine, sea salt. The tension on this wine is so good and so classically Raveneau, being both chiselled yet broad shouldered all at once. Some nice tertiary development as well in the form of honey and bruised apple. The richness of the wine is obvious although not as opulent as other vintage from this cuvée and while this is excellent (and I loved it), probably doesn’t hit the heady heights this maker can achieve with some proper age.

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  10/6/2023 - melvinyeowq wrote: 94 Points

  Birthday dinner with good wine friends: Not as large-framed as my previous Raveneau experience. Still quite round but the mineral and citrus fruit dominated to give a superb tension to the wine. A balanced and poised wine, was a crowd favourite at the start but started to lose its structure with time. Glad to have shared this since top producers can be transcendental and Chablis as a region can be overlooked.

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  9/18/2023 - Blair Curtis wrote: 93 Points

  Had this alongside the 2008 of the same wine. The 2008 was the better wine on this night by a wee bit. The 2008 bottle we had was fresher, brighter, more clear and had a bit more mineral bite. The 2007 opened with some pleasant lactic/cheese notes, and had a slightly fatter (for Raveneau) presentation. It was showing more maturity and some honeyed notes - but to be clear, not even a hint of prem-ox. Just showing its proper age (it is 16 after all), while the 2008 bottle we enjoyed remained more youthful. My last bottle of this 2007 was opened over 5 years ago, and I can say that the wine has shown some development over that period - which some white Burg fans would enjoy a lot. At a Paulee event, these really stood out positively among the whites...quite a few of which were either too young, or prem-oxed.

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  9/14/2023 - psi wrote: 93 Points

  Painfully young (!). A typical Raveneau in its youth with sea and salty white stones, very mineral and tightly wound. Notes of lemon and bitter sweet grapefuit, quite floral and a profound acidity. This was drunk at least 5 years too early and had none of the more mature and exotic Raveneau notes that are absolutely magic. Oh well, an acquired taste and not the least hedonistic. Intellectual and dry. That's ok, but damn you need to wait a long time for these wines to mature...

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