July 30, 2022 - Pretty intense nose of yellow apples, chalk, hazelnuts, grilled lemon and butter. Medium plus mouthfeel, high acidity, nice chalky minerality, very long.
Perfect bottle, beautifully showing, drinks amazingly well now!
July 14, 2019 - Burgundies for Bastille Day (Chicago, IL): This bottle is pretty in line with the last time I tasted this wine. If anything, this is a little fleshier and broader than I remember, and there's a sense of maturity here. That green tinge that I remember on the last bottle is here as well, and it may well be that the green meanies are not starting to pop up in the white wines.
May 18, 2019 - Wines Tasted at HDH Auction (Spiaggia - Chicago IL): Small glass, brief note. Maturing gracefully with a nice combination of ripe and bitter apple character. I’d err on the side of drinking these up.
May 18, 2019 - HDH Burgundy Auction; 5/17/2019-5/18/2019 (Chicago, IL): This is as classic as it gets; fairly open, with some good mineral and smoke character. The back end of the palate does seem to have a little more of that green thing that I'm not a huge fan of (the snap pea string thing). Lovely minerality, with some good leanness.
February 14, 2019 - Served in a generic stem. Root / 1006 hPa.
Color here is yellow with a straw rim. Showing normal signs of age. Nose is ready for business out of the gate with pears, green apple skin, lemons. I find Dauvissat's Vaillons to lean more fruit forward and rich, and while those qualities still take stage, the pronounced salinity and iodine quality the comes with age is really showing well now. A really intriguing chamomile quality comes through with some air as well. Palate is very focused, with kombu like salinity and mushroom notes, lemon/lime, apples, and a touch of hazelnut. With air, things really tighten up and display fantastic clay minerality. Lovely acidity and length. This particular bottle was in a fantastic spot, showing a lot of the secondary Chablis aromatics and flavors I love, but still with a lot of youthful angularity. Properly stored bottles like this have a long life ahead, but this in an excellent spot for drinking now.
August 30, 2018 - Color shimmering medium gold, good maybe just a shade dark and a slight funky whiff made us a little nervous but into a small carafe decanter it went and placed on ice. 15 minutes later this started to rock. Good texture and acid and it kept delivering new nuances in both aromatics and secondary earthy /saline flavors for another several hrs. Probably at peak within 90 minutes. What a pleasure to experience a "proper" bottle at age 12. While in the past I would age this longer I would not be inclined to take the risk and would move additional bottles into drinking rotation and hope for similar experiences.
September 10, 2017 - Starts off slightly rich for Chablis with ripe apple and pear with floral flourishes. Fresh aromas for its age, followed by the same flavor profile,but nicely more mature. Textures show lots of acidity and minerality with everything in balance. Good weight, good length. Drinking very well now, but no hurry to drink.
September 29, 2016 - Gorgeous drinkability window, probably at its peak. Worryingly dark gold color but totally fresh and complex. Loads of complex herbal notes on the nose, desiccated Asian pear, tangerine oil, white truffle and honey. Complex and light on its feet on the palate and stuffed with exotic truffle-infused white fruit, wet slate and pine/forest hints. Yum!
September 17, 2016 - Still surprisingly young and fresh. Gains a lovely salt/sea expression after some air. Great.
September 10, 2016 - The essence of Chablis. Not a heavyweight wine; rather, delicate and floral with the salinity one would expect. Drinking nicely now, though putting any premox concerns aside, should have plenty of upside.