2009 Dauvissat-Camus Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  12/9/2023 - VlgJeff wrote: 93 Points

  The Columbia Group - Two and a Half Years Later (Our Place): Decanted for 20 minutes then returned to the bottle and enjoyed over the next hour+. On the nose there were powerful and persistent aromas of lemons and crushed stone. These carried over to the medium to plus bodied palate along with some green apple, a touch of stone fruits and very juicy acidity that holds all the elements together and cleanses the palate. This wine will probably hold into the next decade.
  This wine is an excellent example of Les Clos that differentiates itself from other wines from the same vineyard by its terroir driven minerality.

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  1/15/2023 - viniferatu Likes this wine:

  la Gloire de la Loire... but grand cru dauvissat is apparently the way to start a grand Loire tasting, I'm ok with that...
  
  quite rich and full for Chablis, but that's not really a surprise given the producer and site, classic chalky grip and salty savory notes come through on the brilliant and long finish, this is ab fab

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  10/2/2022 - viniferatu Likes this wine:

  this has it all: fabulous nose is bright and complex, palate is textured and silky, finish is long and complex... one of the very best Chablis or Chardonnay I can recall drinking, and this showing seemed to indicate that it has a long life ahead of it

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  8/28/2020 - Somm David T Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Nose reveals beauty & grace. Sweet & just sour lemons, lime candy, green dominate apples with shades of golden, cream, vanillin, ginger, ripe squeezed pineapple flesh, grapefruit with pith, touch of apple cider, salted caramel, cream soda, sea fossils, sea spray, light volcanics, marmalade fruit, Stone fruit with yellow & spring flowers flowers set in mixed greens.
  
  The palate is very full, round, waxy, rich with excellent viscosity. Beautiful mouthfeel. Great time for a bottle. Sweet & just a sour lemons, lime candy, green dominate apples with shades of golden, cream, vanillin, ginger, ripe squeezed pineapple flesh, grapefruit with pith, touch of apple cider, salted caramel, cream soda, healthier honey, sea fossils, white spice with the perfect depth & heat, sea spray, reductive, melted molasses, light volcanics, wet stone, elegant flintiness, marmalade fruit, stone fruit-apricot, nectarines, white & yellow peach with yellow & spring flowers flowers set in mixed greens. The acidity is like a cool stone filled stream. The long, round finish is; waxy, round, lush, with excellent balance fruit & earth, gentle white spice palate heat that persists endlessly. On the long, longboard set, I get soft subtle cream notes of whiskey/scotch w/o any heat. It Hoovers center mouth.
  
  Some producer notes I read. Vincent started helping his father René in 1976 and, during the last decade, has gradually taken control of viticulture and winemaking. For him, the ultimate goal is to harvest healthy grapes that are fully ripe and concentrated which, he declares, can only be achieved consistently by hard work in the vineyard. His passion for wine enables him to put this work ethic into practice with real vigour - close pruning the vines (40 years old on average) during the growing season to restrict yields, hand harvesting at vintage time and ruthlessly discarding any rotten or split grapes. His vinification and maturation methods see him join the small band of Chablis producers who employ oak. The wines are vinified and aged in a mixture of steel vats and 6-to 8 year old wooden barrels. The wood is old and therefore doesn’t stamp any oak flavour onto the wines but does give them an extra depth of flavor and density of body, whilst still retaining their unique identities. These are intensely terroir-driven, mineral wines of such concentration that they take longer than most to reach their best, though they are every bit worth the wait.

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  2/3/2019 - dcwino wrote: 93 Points

  Sommelier Appreciation Dinner 2019 (The Brown Residence): Initial stinky note blows off revealing coiled concentrated citrus fruit, honey, crushed rose and limestone. Excellent concentration, incredibly coiled ripe citrus, dense yet focused, bright acidity, strong mineral and a long concentrated citrus fruit driven finish. It is dense and concentrated yet very focused. Very ripe version of very focused wine that needs time.

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