Great bottle. Classic Dauvissat on first pour--iodine, shells, a bit of a brothy quality on finish. Gained energy and depth as it opened in the glass. Top notch showing. Should cruise here for another 5+ at least.
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Decanted 2 hours in advance. Medium dull yellow-fine color for its age. All algal, brothy elements aromatically. Medium body, some glycerine, but mostly earth and limestone foundation. Here, the mineral and saline flavors form the classic flavor core with grapefruit at the margins providing support. Wonderful acidity too. A real Chablis purist's Chablis-unlikely to find wines like this in more recent "solar" global warming vintages.
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Color is a light goldenrod. The nose is incredible - umami rich kombu and seaweed, white truffles, crimini mushrooms, and some pear. Palate follow suit as incredibly brothy and umami driven. The salinity and savory aspects of this wine are off the charts, while still be lifted and refreshing. Acidity isnt especially high, but enough to provide the energy this wine needs. Intense minerality with chalk and oyster shell on the finish. In my opinion, this wine is at its peak... Outside of a hair more acidity, I can't think I anything I'd ask more from this wine. Amazing.
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There's a killer balance to the rich honey and cutting iodine of this perfectly aged Séchet, a cool subparcel of Vaillons, that come together on the palate with a surprising amount of weight and intense, honeyed fruit given how austere this wine presented itself on release. Finishes with the juxtaposition of salty minerality and more honey. Very good!
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Salt, iodine, sea stuff, wonderful nose and taste, some earthy stuff, Séchet is a sub 1er cru of the Vaillons. Dauvissat separated the two, having the Vaillons parcel with deeper soil, more rich and the stonier Séchet parcel, which is very lean from its birth, but getting volume on time. Very good, on it’s apogee.
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Didn't feel like either of my two bottles were up to par for Dauvissat. Maybe just not his strongest effort. Maybe these were better a bit younger, but if you have any I'd drink sooner rather than later.
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Deep yellow color. Sea brine, lemon dust and spice on the nose. A very high acid palate, lively with a citrus profile (lemon mixed with grapefruit). Lean and refreshing with a bitter element on the long juicy finish.
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Tulip colored-has lost its youthful green. All sorts of sea shore and iodine aromas. Medium weight with fine layering and texture. In the mouth, all about the savory earthy mix rather than the citrus fruit, which only echoes in the background. Acidity is strong enough to provide support but is not overly assertive. Excellent and probably at an optimum state of maturity. This is the fourth vintage of Séchet I've tasted within a month (2016, 2010, this 2007, and 2004), and I am beginning to get a better sense of how this wine starts out lean and taut but then gains flesh and amplitude with aging.
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Couldn't ask for more from this 1er...6 for 6 in great bottles! Aging brilliantly now with some honey creme and dried berries...tons of salty chalk dust, crushed limestone, sea funk...brilliant pureness to the pitted orchard fruits and still that intense puckering lemon acidity. Great length that's creamy, bright, and full of classic Chablis character. SO good!
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Very reduced, so we double decanted it for 30 min, which was enough to clean it. A great showing... super mineral palate, saline and long aftertaste with a laser like precision. It has already gained some body but the pungent acidity balances it and it's actually feeling light on its feet. Superb. 92-93
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Just becoming bright, full yellow. Great scents of sea shore, white flowers, and lemon. Medium weight, crystalline feel. Very primary fruit and saline notes. Whereas others have found the acidity objectionable, I thought everything was beautifully in place with this bottle, another youthful, underrated 2007. Slightly more flesh than I expected in the Sechet. Perfect for an oyster luncheon.
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Medium yellow color. First out of bottle it had intense bite of grapefruit and lemon, searing acid. Stoney and a bit unforgiving. Clearly very young still. But after a it of time and with rich food, you get more floral and melon notes. I will see how this does with a day in the bottle and update later. Good to try now, but rest of case will wait. After one day of being open including 2 hours at room temp it opened up and softened a bit. More florals, less acid bite. I would really wait at least 5 years longer for this one. Don't even think about drinking this now.
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Just a little mean, green and acidic. Left half a bottle for a day and still the same. Not pleasurable at this stage and if served blind I'd go 04 with its herbal, floral qualities.
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On the nose: Lemon zest, grapefruit, oyster shell, white flowers, and chalk. The color was a rich gold and acidity was well balanced. This wine showed well, but has many years left
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Colour fairly deep gold but not premoxed. A classic Chablis nose of lemon and grapefruit juice, chalk, oyster shell and salty sea spray. Also classic Chablis typicity on palate. The flavours are citric, oyster shell, blanched almonds, chalky and limestone, with real salinity on the long, dry finish. The wine has excellent, racy acidity, that provides great cut and focus. There is a beautiful balance between that freshness and acidity and the ripe, rich fruit here. Good architecture and fruit weight. There is the material here for many years' cellaring.
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Just taking on some advanced baked apple and grilled nuttiness. It is linear, compact and has plenty of citrus in the mouth. It is just an ok drink but I have had far fresher and better bottles of this.
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Enters with lots of dry chalky seashell mineral character, builds richness and breadth in the mid-palate and finishes with focused saline edged length. Nothing wanting.
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decanted 1.5 hours. pale yellow; super saline, oceanic, iodine bouquet; mid-weight; extra briny on palate as well, delicately creamy, clean & bright w/very tangy, lemon zested citric acids. young still, but not super complex.
mussels in garlicky cream broth w/thyme & bacon
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Raveneau vs Dauvissat (Oslo): Klar, strågul. Noe uren nese. Bløtt og søtt anslag. Avdempet syre. Valnøtter i tørrende fininsh. Ikke helt ødelagt, men premox.
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Another bottle tonight....really puckery with lemon out of the gate...very nice cream feel, as well as the sea salted minerals and honey. With that pucker acid, and that creamy rich fruit....this thing will be killer in 10yrs!! To bad mine won't make it that long!
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Delicious wine, very much of Chablis with its aromas of iodine and seashells, funky and almost reductive at first. The wine harmonizes beautifully over an hour or so and is well balanced and refreshingly light and brisk. This vintage doesn't seem to show a lot of concentration, which is fair, and in the end it is hard for the wine to be terribly profound. But it is true and delicious and completely satisfying.
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A very nice Chablis - doesn't have the textural highs like the Forest bottling, but still a very solid wine. Balanced, good mineral presence, expansive mid-palate and finish. With oysters on the half-shell? Yes please.
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Very young, of course, but as it opens and warms to cellar temp...wonderful vervy lemon/lime pucker, with an amazing creamy mouth-feel, and finishes with a burst of chalky spiciness. I can tell this will be spectacular in a few years.....under the young tightness, I get bright citrus fruit, tart green apple, crushed rock, salted honey combs, celery. Not much sea funk or smoky flint....but that might come out with a little age. The bright lemon/lime citrus and cream makes this wine right now! Tasty, high quality Chablis. Can't wait to try again in a couple years! ++pts
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Had to crank the 07 ‘Sechet’ up with lunch today after the splendid showing of the ‘Forest’ last night. Certainly it is piercing but stops short of making one’s face go all Gordon Ramsay, although I did get the Rene Zellweger squint for most of the bottle. Crammed full of oranges and lemons and it has just a faint drizzle of honey and a slight candied feel to the fruits. It is strict and linear, although its pulpy nature allows an early peek, and should live for a very long time.
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Couldn't resist trying one of these early to get a glimpse of '07 Chablis. Light yellow. The nose itself gets the salivary glands going with its oyster shell, lime, and vivid orange. There is already marvelous tension between its linear precision and the flesh of an exceptional vintage. This is unusually complete for a Sechet. It has a driving, mouthwatering finish that bursts with acidity and stone at the back of the palate. I think I'm really going to like this vintage-based on this measly single sample, it seems more focused than '06, has better texture than '04, yet avoids the excessive ripeness of '05 or even '02. Even if this is a ridiculous overgeneralization, I am quite sure that this is a dynamite Premier Cru Chablis.
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8/8/2021 - ccn wrote: 89 Points
Extremely saline, dense character from the start. Long and almost thick. Faded in the glass after 30 minutes and ultimately disappointing.
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5/13/2021 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Great bottle. Classic Dauvissat on first pour--iodine, shells, a bit of a brothy quality on finish. Gained energy and depth as it opened in the glass. Top notch showing. Should cruise here for another 5+ at least.
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9/9/2020 - drwine2001 wrote:
Decanted 2 hours in advance. Medium dull yellow-fine color for its age. All algal, brothy elements aromatically. Medium body, some glycerine, but mostly earth and limestone foundation. Here, the mineral and saline flavors form the classic flavor core with grapefruit at the margins providing support. Wonderful acidity too. A real Chablis purist's Chablis-unlikely to find wines like this in more recent "solar" global warming vintages.
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8/26/2020 - cfrances33 wrote: 96 Points
Served in a JRxRB Universal. Leaf / 1012 hPa
Color is a light goldenrod. The nose is incredible - umami rich kombu and seaweed, white truffles, crimini mushrooms, and some pear. Palate follow suit as incredibly brothy and umami driven. The salinity and savory aspects of this wine are off the charts, while still be lifted and refreshing. Acidity isnt especially high, but enough to provide the energy this wine needs. Intense minerality with chalk and oyster shell on the finish. In my opinion, this wine is at its peak... Outside of a hair more acidity, I can't think I anything I'd ask more from this wine. Amazing.
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12/18/2019 - rlove wrote: 92 Points
There's a killer balance to the rich honey and cutting iodine of this perfectly aged Séchet, a cool subparcel of Vaillons, that come together on the palate with a surprising amount of weight and intense, honeyed fruit given how austere this wine presented itself on release. Finishes with the juxtaposition of salty minerality and more honey. Very good!
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7/4/2019 - MJReb wrote: 92 Points
Salt, iodine, sea stuff, wonderful nose and taste, some earthy stuff, Séchet is a sub 1er cru of the Vaillons. Dauvissat separated the two, having the Vaillons parcel with deeper soil, more rich and the stonier Séchet parcel, which is very lean from its birth, but getting volume on time. Very good, on it’s apogee.
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11/13/2018 - bconly wrote: 89 Points
Didn't feel like either of my two bottles were up to par for Dauvissat. Maybe just not his strongest effort. Maybe these were better a bit younger, but if you have any I'd drink sooner rather than later.
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5/7/2018 - llink wrote: 89 Points
Deep yellow color. Sea brine, lemon dust and spice on the nose. A very high acid palate, lively with a citrus profile (lemon mixed with grapefruit). Lean and refreshing with a bitter element on the long juicy finish.
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5/6/2018 - drwine2001 wrote:
Tulip colored-has lost its youthful green. All sorts of sea shore and iodine aromas. Medium weight with fine layering and texture. In the mouth, all about the savory earthy mix rather than the citrus fruit, which only echoes in the background. Acidity is strong enough to provide support but is not overly assertive. Excellent and probably at an optimum state of maturity. This is the fourth vintage of Séchet I've tasted within a month (2016, 2010, this 2007, and 2004), and I am beginning to get a better sense of how this wine starts out lean and taut but then gains flesh and amplitude with aging.
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3/9/2018 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 94 Points
Couldn't ask for more from this 1er...6 for 6 in great bottles! Aging brilliantly now with some honey creme and dried berries...tons of salty chalk dust, crushed limestone, sea funk...brilliant pureness to the pitted orchard fruits and still that intense puckering lemon acidity. Great length that's creamy, bright, and full of classic Chablis character. SO good!
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7/29/2017 - STEVEN@WINECELLARCLUB.COM wrote: 93 Points
HARD EDGE, ANGULAR, STRUCTURED, LOTS OF MINERALITY, FRUIT IN BALANCE.
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2/11/2017 - Periko wrote: 93 Points
Very reduced, so we double decanted it for 30 min, which was enough to clean it. A great showing... super mineral palate, saline and long aftertaste with a laser like precision. It has already gained some body but the pungent acidity balances it and it's actually feeling light on its feet. Superb. 92-93
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11/29/2015 - drwine2001 wrote:
Just becoming bright, full yellow. Great scents of sea shore, white flowers, and lemon. Medium weight, crystalline feel. Very primary fruit and saline notes. Whereas others have found the acidity objectionable, I thought everything was beautifully in place with this bottle, another youthful, underrated 2007. Slightly more flesh than I expected in the Sechet. Perfect for an oyster luncheon.
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11/5/2015 - vespa110 wrote: flawed
Oxyded
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10/30/2015 - acidqueen wrote: 91 Points
Medium yellow color. First out of bottle it had intense bite of grapefruit and lemon, searing acid. Stoney and a bit unforgiving. Clearly very young still. But after a it of time and with rich food, you get more floral and melon notes. I will see how this does with a day in the bottle and update later. Good to try now, but rest of case will wait.
After one day of being open including 2 hours at room temp it opened up and softened a bit. More florals, less acid bite. I would really wait at least 5 years longer for this one. Don't even think about drinking this now.
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5/10/2015 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Just a little mean, green and acidic. Left half a bottle for a day and still the same. Not pleasurable at this stage and if served blind I'd go 04 with its herbal, floral qualities.
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1/1/2015 - Burgfiendnyc Likes this wine: 91 Points
On the nose: Lemon zest, grapefruit, oyster shell, white flowers, and chalk. The color was a rich gold and acidity was well balanced. This wine showed well, but has many years left
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12/24/2014 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 92 Points
Colour fairly deep gold but not premoxed. A classic Chablis nose of lemon and grapefruit juice, chalk, oyster shell and salty sea spray. Also classic Chablis typicity on palate. The flavours are citric, oyster shell, blanched almonds, chalky and limestone, with real salinity on the long, dry finish. The wine has excellent, racy acidity, that provides great cut and focus. There is a beautiful balance between that freshness and acidity and the ripe, rich fruit here. Good architecture and fruit weight. There is the material here for many years' cellaring.
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12/13/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Just taking on some advanced baked apple and grilled nuttiness. It is linear, compact and has plenty of citrus in the mouth. It is just an ok drink but I have had far fresher and better bottles of this.
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11/21/2014 - Bogho wrote: flawed
not as fresh and young as I'd have expected. Even too mature for being a chablis of this range.
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9/4/2014 - mike wrote: 94 Points
Enters with lots of dry chalky seashell mineral character, builds richness and breadth in the mid-palate and finishes with focused saline edged length. Nothing wanting.
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5/6/2014 - danstrings Likes this wine: 91 Points
Lovely minerally honeyed oiliness yet bone dry.. Classic Dauvissat. Hint of white truffle.
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3/15/2014 - pigdaddy wrote: 91 Points
decanted 1.5 hours. pale yellow; super saline, oceanic, iodine bouquet; mid-weight; extra briny on palate as well, delicately creamy, clean & bright w/very tangy, lemon zested citric acids. young still, but not super complex.
mussels in garlicky cream broth w/thyme & bacon
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6/19/2013 - -E- wrote: flawed
Raveneau vs Dauvissat (Oslo): Klar, strågul. Noe uren nese. Bløtt og søtt anslag. Avdempet syre.
Valnøtter i tørrende fininsh. Ikke helt ødelagt, men premox.
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1/11/2012 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 93 Points
Another bottle tonight....really puckery with lemon out of the gate...very nice cream feel, as well as the sea salted minerals and honey. With that pucker acid, and that creamy rich fruit....this thing will be killer in 10yrs!! To bad mine won't make it that long!
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12/5/2011 - brooklynguy wrote:
Delicious wine, very much of Chablis with its aromas of iodine and seashells, funky and almost reductive at first. The wine harmonizes beautifully over an hour or so and is well balanced and refreshingly light and brisk. This vintage doesn't seem to show a lot of concentration, which is fair, and in the end it is hard for the wine to be terribly profound. But it is true and delicious and completely satisfying.
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6/5/2011 - Ive Marx wrote: 90 Points
Primary. Needs time.
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5/18/2011 - jaimetown wrote: 91 Points
A very nice Chablis - doesn't have the textural highs like the Forest bottling, but still a very solid wine. Balanced, good mineral presence, expansive mid-palate and finish. With oysters on the half-shell? Yes please.
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6/24/2010 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 94 Points
Can't keep my hands off this stuff! Wish I had a case. See note below....
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5/17/2010 - STEVEN@WINECELLARCLUB.COM wrote: 91 Points
Flinty dry style. Refreshing, well balanced. Great finish. Needs 2 - 4 yrs more.
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2/10/2010 - Mrbuzz wrote: 94 Points
Very young, of course, but as it opens and warms to cellar temp...wonderful vervy lemon/lime pucker, with an amazing creamy mouth-feel, and finishes with a burst of chalky spiciness. I can tell this will be spectacular in a few years.....under the young tightness, I get bright citrus fruit, tart green apple, crushed rock, salted honey combs, celery. Not much sea funk or smoky flint....but that might come out with a little age. The bright lemon/lime citrus and cream makes this wine right now! Tasty, high quality Chablis. Can't wait to try again in a couple years! ++pts
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7/25/2009 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Had to crank the 07 ‘Sechet’ up with lunch today after the splendid showing of the ‘Forest’ last night. Certainly it is piercing but stops short of making one’s face go all Gordon Ramsay, although I did get the Rene Zellweger squint for most of the bottle. Crammed full of oranges and lemons and it has just a faint drizzle of honey and a slight candied feel to the fruits. It is strict and linear, although its pulpy nature allows an early peek, and should live for a very long time.
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1/23/2009 - drwine2001 wrote:
Couldn't resist trying one of these early to get a glimpse of '07 Chablis. Light yellow. The nose itself gets the salivary glands going with its oyster shell, lime, and vivid orange. There is already marvelous tension between its linear precision and the flesh of an exceptional vintage. This is unusually complete for a Sechet. It has a driving, mouthwatering finish that bursts with acidity and stone at the back of the palate. I think I'm really going to like this vintage-based on this measly single sample, it seems more focused than '06, has better texture than '04, yet avoids the excessive ripeness of '05 or even '02. Even if this is a ridiculous overgeneralization, I am quite sure that this is a dynamite Premier Cru Chablis.
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