2014 Jean-Paul & Benoit Droin Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 90.2 points

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  2/2/2023 - Bakerbd Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Bright citrus and orchard fruit, mineral, med + acid, crisp

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  10/30/2021 - cct wrote: 94 Points

  A little reduction at first that blows off to reveal oyster shell briny steely on the nose with the fruit citrus more than apple, with jasmine florals.
  
  On the palate, it's a steely and chalky, soil and acid more than fruit driven classic Chablis. It's unadorned, chiseled, and detailed. AN AFWE wine for sure. Excellent interplay of extract and focus, but a little austere. I like that.
  
  3 days in the refrigerator did this a lot of good.
  
  Day 4, the last half of the bottle in the fridge recorked, this has really come into its own. Still a steely, sculpted, soil driven Chablis, but with a bit of unripe pineapple, lemon curd, a bit of nuttiness, brine, more florals, and more palate breadth. The already not that ugly duckling became a swan. A deep, focused, mouthwatering, soil driven Chablis with terrific clarity. A rock head's wine. Delicious. 93

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  5/28/2020 - decaturwinedude wrote:

  This stuff is still terrific, and even fleshier than my bottle two years ago. It just reads Chablis out of the gate. Green apple and a salty air breeze note. Fleshes out to show some mid-palate sweetness that is surrounded by a mouth puckering salinity that lingers. It's not terribly complex, it's rather upfront juicy and edgy. Terrific liveliness/freshness that 14s seem to have.

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  4/4/2020 - JCGuthrie wrote: 90 Points

  A solid but not exceptional wine. I didn't get as much Chablis character on this as some of the other tasters noted.

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  8/22/2018 - Mazy Likes this wine: 89 Points

  PNP. Un vin de fruit, pas des plus complexes mais se buvant bien. Meilleur après le repas avec les fromages (comme d'habitude, les Droin ont besoin d'un peu d'air).

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