2015 La Chablisienne Chablis Les Vénérables

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  6/24/2022 - Thegreen1985 wrote: 86 Points

  French white wine from Chablis: Chardonnay. 12,5 % alcohol. Aged for 12 months on fine lees in stainless steel tanks and barrels.
  
  Light golden color.
  
  Ripe aromas of brioche, pears, white flowers, lemon and wet stones. Powerful and fresh flavors of ripe yellow apples, green apples, peach and lemon. Minerality in the background.
  
  Dry. Medium- body. Medium acidity. Okay balance. Okay structure. Low complexity.
  
  Medium finish with lemon and crushed grape seeds.
  
  A “not terrible/not great” Chablis without anything extra. Improves with air and works at both fridge and room temperature. Refreshing on its own and okay with food (Matjes Herring Salad). 86/100

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  5/27/2021 - Vera Wind Likes this wine: 86 Points

  La Chablisienne tasing.
  Terroir: Kimmerridge
  Old vines.
  
  Light yellow colour.
  On the nose some spice, sweet fruits, vanillanotes hinting towards oak, someting butterlike.
  On the palate the wine has medium body, a fat feeling in the mouth, there is oak and a medium to low acidity. Grilled lemon, japanese pears and neutral white melon.
  The wine needs a bit more acidity to really hit it off.

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  9/16/2020 - Bob likes wine Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Drinking very well, good acIdity with a touch of butteryness too follow. Some nice biscuity and savoury flavours and a hint if minerality. Not bad at all for village level Chablis and has improved since the previous bottle.

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  8/5/2020 - robertbjensen wrote: 88 Points

  Pleasant but boring, lacking the flinty minerality I would expect from Chablis... Will revisit tomorrow

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  5/5/2020 - Z1nnfull Likes this wine: 90 Points

  California can't make Chardonnay like this Chablis. It is interesting because the vines have some age on them (label does not say how old, but thusly "les venerables") and grown in chalky-like soil, so in addition to the fruit you have a touch of minerality.
  Reminds me of French Chablis I was first introduced to in the early 1980's with that flint and not overly-oaked. The fruit tastes like green apple, but not quite that sour, acidic, austere...but hardly sweet. Everything seemed to be super-balanced and integrated and we surely enjoyed this and are glad we have another bottle, although at 2015-DRINK NOW.

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