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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by winemaker on 7/27/2021 & rated 93 points: Excellent bottle. This had the flinty minerally bits you want in Chablis with a hint of honey on the finish. (640 views) | | | Tasted by winemaker on 10/4/2020 & rated 93 points: Atypical Chablis. Tasted more like Puligny. Still it is a delicious wine. Lacked the cut one would expect from Chablis. (804 views) | | | Tasted by winemaker on 6/15/2020 & rated 92 points: Excellent. Ready to go. As I said before, a rounder style, but delicious. (835 views) | | | Tasted by tak4 on 9/27/2019: Lovely. Purchased at Sherry Lehman and consumed at Bohemian. Flinty, full bodied, and a touch of anise. (983 views) | | | Tasted by winemaker on 6/22/2019 & rated 92 points: Delicious. Nicely balanced. A rounder style of Chablis. Glad I have more. (995 views) | | | Tasted by PaulNT on 3/13/2018 & rated 91 points: Cream and vanilla in the mouth, this has depth and power. Although slightly more mineral, this is not dissimilar to a Meursault. It is already drinking nicely. It paired beautifully with crab. (912 views) | | | Tasted by wgmccallum on 2/28/2017 & rated 89 points: Pale greenish yellow. Nose of limes, oyster shells, with a hint of honey. Precise core of fruit on the mid-palate with a lovely acid spread towards the back and an excellent lingering acid finish. Simple, delicious. 50 + 16 + 16 + 7 = 89. (1161 views) | | | Tasted by Socrates on 7/13/2016: Fine and pure. Just a touch of wood but so judicious. Clean and mineraly with citrus notes and just a hint tropical. Pure is the key word here. Undeniably Chardonnay, undeniably Chablis. (1394 views) | | | Tasted by GuWin on 7/8/2016 & rated 92 points: Sommersmaking i Sandefjord del I / Norwegian summer night - BYO (Sandefjord): Lys gyllengul. Svake flinttoner og gul frukt på duft. Fyldig og småfet i anslaget, ganske kompakt og konsentrert med mye gul frukt, honningtoner og god syre. (1733 views) | | | Tasted by tinybubbles on 5/27/2016 & rated 87 points: Ripe fruit, noticeable but not objectionable wood on the nose and initial palate (too much for my taste), and somewhat imprecise acids. This wine settled down after being open for an hour, but still hand some difficult transitions, particularly on the palate. (1115 views) |
| Roland Lavantureux Producer websiteChardonnay 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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