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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 21 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by gris on 11/2/2020 & rated 92 points: Great acidity: more green apple with a hint of pineapple at the back end. Still going strong. Unfortunately, the last bottle. (499 views) | | | Tasted by mterheijden on 7/26/2019 & rated 92 points: Not very familiar with Chablis. Very impressive how fresh this is. No oxidation. Pale color. Nice minerality in the nose with apples. Nice acidity still with touch of stone fruit (699 views) | | | Tasted by gris on 1/11/2018 & rated 93 points: Very pale, hints of green in glass but rich, mellow and resolved in mouth. Good acidity. Flinty but floral. No oxidation. Minerals and yet some tropical fruit. Very well-received by blind tasting group: either a Muscadet or Chablis, but all surprised it was 14 years old. (1050 views) | | | Tasted by fcxj on 8/9/2016 & rated 86 points: Served a bit warm and tasted uneven. Not oxidized, just not put together. (1468 views) | | | Tasted by redders on 4/3/2016 flawed bottle: Horribly corked. As bad as it gets (1104 views) | | | Tasted by redders on 4/3/2016 & rated 89 points: Opened another bottle after a badly corked one. Pale green mineral nose. The slightest hint of possible tca which affected the nose but not the palate. Linear and correct palate but lacked little excitement (1367 views) | | | Tasted by fcxj on 9/9/2015 & rated 90 points: Pleasant. (1252 views) | | | Tasted by redders on 7/30/2015 & rated 89 points: Green with hint of gold. Ripe grassy nose bit of exotic fruit. Quite fat on the palate with ripe fruit. Not the cut or energy of previous bottles. (838 views) | | | Tasted by pixie87 on 7/29/2014 & rated 90 points: Haven't had chablis in a long time now, the nose is quite floral, fresh, with yellow-green fruit. What is yellow-green fruit Nat asks? Yellow chinese pears (lei) and a tinge of green apples and lemon. Luscious on the nose, but delineated on the palate, before rich honeyed talcum notes at the end. A transition phase. This wine is reminiscent of leaves turning yellow at the start of autumn, before they start to fall. (1063 views) | | | Tasted by redders on 11/12/2013 & rated 91 points: pale green very bright. Expansive nose , rich, lanolin herbs but no heaviness. Powerful a lot of depth and minerality balancing richness. Fatter than expected even for a grand cru chablis. Still young. (1199 views) | | | Tasted by presterjohn on 3/20/2013: apple and sharply acidic fruit, great depth and complexity, vibrant, with savoury richness behind... needs many years but great potential. tip top (1293 views) | | | Tasted by redders on 2/14/2013 & rated 92 points: Green straw colour . Fresh fruit grand cru depth and fan like finish.impressive (1235 views) | | | Tasted by SimonG on 2/21/2012 & rated 91 points: Julian's Chablis Offline: Less expressive nose. Slightly lactic. Again, decent grip but still quite subdued. Needs time. ***(*) (2203 views) | | | Tasted by Jeremy Holmes on 6/19/2010: Supremely youthful with all its fresh lemon and mineral attributes. There’s just a suggestion of gooseberry or something tropical but in the main it’s all oyster shell and citrus. It has good shape, a rapier spine and is long and extremely precise…terrific stuff! (1311 views) | | | Tasted by GreenDrazi on 4/14/2007 & rated 88 points: K-B Spring ’07 Allocation Pick-up in Raleigh (Sullivan’s, Raleigh, NC): No decant. Light color and a floral and vivid nose. Intricate, sunny flavors of pear, a touch of butter and a light mineral quality that broadens on the mid-palate and continued to pick up weight the longer it was decanted. Needs time. This was much better with food. (3169 views) | | | Tasted by Hillbilly on 4/14/2007 & rated 90 points: A touch of herbal notes on the nose but the palate is screaming lime and lemon. Background minerality. Somewhat choppy on the midpalate and finish, but still quite nice. Medium palate weight with some acid sticking out especially on the finish. Hey, it's young! Does not have the smooth elegant presentation of the 04 Fevres, though I did not have this exact bottling from 04. (1893 views) | | | Tasted by HurrahSyrah on 4/14/2007 & rated 88 points: GreenDrazi comes to NC! (Sullivan's- Raleigh, NC): Popped and poured. This wine exhibited a light straw yellow color with aromas of citrus and herbs. On the palate, citrus elements were supported with floral and mineral elements that were amplified when paired with oysters. Before the pairing, the wine seemed a bit boring, but the pairing definitely brought forth the potential of this Chablis. HS88 (2742 views) |
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From Burghound: "Producer note: Bernard Billaud, just as he did in 2010, called the 2011 vintage "a complete classic. If the wine school textbooks had a description of what classic Chablis is supposed to smell and taste like, then both 2010 and 2011 produced it. The wines are elegant, very fresh and possess a wonderful sense of tension and drive. I suppose if I had to choose, 2010 is slightly more classic but really, we're splitting hairs. From the standpoint of making a comparison with another recent vintage, I would characterize 2011 as being more like 2008 than 2010, which itself is perhaps more like 2007. The fruit was exceptionally clean and quite ripe as there was no chaptalization. Overall, I think people will love 2011 as the wines will drink well early but should also age beautifully if desired." As to the now in-bottle 2010s, they have fulfilled everything that I saw last year and then some. In sum, they are seriously impressive wines and well worth your attention. "
About Billaud-Simon
Domaine Billaud-Simon in Chablis is comprised of about 42 acres, encompassing four Grands Crus vineyards, including one acre in Les Clos; one acre in Les Preuses; 1.75 acres in Vaudésir; and .44 acre in Les Blanchots. The Domaine also owns four Premiers Crus vineyards, including Montée de Tonnèrre, Mont-de-Milieu, Fourchaume and Vaillons. In addition to its crus wines, Domaine Billaud-Simon makes a Chablis Villages “Tête d’Or”, with grapes harvested exclusively from the estate.
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In 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic wars, Charles Louis Noël Billaud returned home to Chablis and founded Domaine Billaud-Simon. There, thanks to his family’s holdings, he planted the first vines. Then, a little more than a century later in the 1930s, the Domaine’s vineyards were enlarged with the marriage of his descendant Jean Billaud to Renée Simon.
Located close to the Serein River, Jean Billaud’s son, Bernard, took over the estate until its acquisition by Domaine Faiveley in July 2014. Since then, Domaine Billaud-Simon is managed separately from Domaine Faiveley: It has its own vineyard, winemaking facilities and remains dedicated to uphold the same style of the wines while continually striving to improve their quality. Along with technical improvements in the modern winery, manual grape picking is increasingly being practiced for their Grands Crus and selected Premiers Crus.
The Chablis wines of Domaine Billaud-Simon exhibit elegance, balance and pure Chardonnay fruit. Delicious when young, they evolve beautifully with some ageing.
Faiveley purchased the Domaine in 2013, bottling, but, not making the 2013’s. The changes saw a shift to harvesting the fruit earlier–with better nerve and natural acidity–than would have been the case here under Bernard Billaud. Since the acquisition, the wines have gone from strength to strength.Chardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeVaudésir at weinlagen.info
Vaudesir is one of the seven official climats of the Chablis Grand Cru white wine appellation. The vineyard – planted entirely to Chardonnay – sits atop the Grand Cru hill, overlooking the town of Chablis below. Vaudesir Grand Cru wines tend to be softer and more elegant than other Chablis Grand Cru wines, with floral characters rounding out Chablis' iconic minerality.
The vineyard covers 42 acres (17ha) of steep land above the Grenouilles Grand Cru site on the hill, just east of Preuses. The vineyard is shaped like an amphitheatre, and is cut through by a track known as the "Chemin des Vaudesirs", giving it a double orientation. Half of its vines face due south, with the remainder facing southwest.
This topography helps to distinguish Vaudesir from other vineyard sites, as the steep slopes provide some protection from northerly winds and vines instead benefit from good exposure to sunlight. This moderates temperatures in the cool Chablis climate, giving Vaudesir a favorable mesoclimate where grapes can develop phenolic ripeness alongside acidity. This leads to balanced wines with lighter body than some of its more exposed neighbors.
Another crucial factor in the Vaudesir terroir is the soils, which tend to be lighter than in the other Grand Cru climats. Although they are still based on the same Kimmeridgian subsoil that sits beneath the rest of the Grand Cru hill, soils in Vaudesir tend toward clay rather than limestone. The lower proportions of limestone here have led to a wine with a more refined minerality: Vaudesir Grand Cru wines lack the muscularity of Les Clos or Valmur wines.
Vaudesir is home to the La Moutonne vineyard: a six-acre (2.5ha) site that is not officially part of the AOC law, but is often considered to be the eighth Chablis Grand Cru.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBurgundy Les vins de Bourgogne (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne) (and in English)
Burgundy - The province of eastern France, famous for its red wines produced from Pinot Noir and its whites produced from Chardonnay. (Small of amounts of Gamay and Aligoté are still grown, although these have to be labeled differently.) The most famous part of the region is known as the Cote d'Or (the Golden Slope). It is divided into the Cote de Beaune, south of the town of Beaune (famous principally for its whites), and the Cote de Nuits, North of Beaune (home of the most famous reds). In addition, the Cote Chalonnaise and the Maconnais are important wine growing regions, although historically a clear level (or more) below the Cote d'Or. Also included by some are the regions of Chablis and Auxerrois, farther north.
Burgundy Report | Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne - na stejné téma od Heleny Baker
# 2013 Vintage Notes:
* "2013 is a vintage that 20 years ago would have been a disaster." - Will Lyons
* "low yields and highly variable reds, much better whites." - Bill Nanson
* "Virtually all wines were chaptalised, with a bit of sugar added before fermentation to increase the final alcohol level." - Jancis Robinson
# 2014 Vintage Notes:
"We have not had such splendid harvest weather for many years. This will ensure high quality (fragrant, classy and succulent are words already being used) across the board, up and down the hierarchy and well as consistently from south to north geographically apart from those vineyards ravaged by the hail at the end of June." - Clive Coates
# 2015 Vintage Notes:
"Low yields and warm weather allowed for ample ripeness, small berries and an early harvest. Quality is looking extremely fine, with some people whispering comparisons with the outstanding 2005 vintage. Acid levels in individual wines may be crucial." - Jancis Robinson
# 2017 Vintage Notes:
"Chablis suffered greatly from frost in 2017, resulting in very reduced volumes. As ever, the irony seems to be that what remains is very good quality, as it is in the Côte d’Or. Cooler nights across the region have resulted in higher-than-usual acidity, with good conditions throughout the harvest season allowing for ripe, healthy fruit." - Jancis Robinson
# 2018 Vintage Notes:
"The most successful region for red Burgundy in 2018 was the Côte de Beaune. The weather was ideal in this area, with just enough sunlight and rain to produce perfectly balanced wines naturally." - Vinfolio
Chablis Chablis (Fédération de Défense de l'Appellation Chablis) | Chablis (Burgundy Wines)
2014 Vintage Notes:
"... a hybrid of 2004/2007 and 2010. The stone, citrus and limestone amalgam is exactly what we search for in Chablis as the style harkens to a day in the Cote de Beaune proper (1960's - 1980's) when wine was not meant to be consumed the week it was released, battonage was not used by all and new oak was rarely seen ... the texture is natural and 'of the vintage' not 'of the winemaker' .... Like Sancerre or the Loire in general, 2014 in Chablis is one of those rare years with extract and transparency. It appears to be a vintage for the "neoclassic" ages and those of us intent on cellaring the most terroir-driven (but still powerful) examples of vineyard, site-place and varietal will want to invest (heavily) in the magnetic and electric 2014's." - Jon Rimmerman
2018 Vintage Notes:
"There’s not that razor sharp Chablis acidity in 2018,” says Patrick Piuze. “But there is good definition of place. The dry conditions drove vines to drink deeper down in the soil profile."
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