2022 Domaine L Chatelain Chablis 1er Cru Fourchaume

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  4/18/2024 - Vino-Rater Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Crisp aromas of apple, pear, and citrus, setting the stage for a taste experience that's both vibrant and refined. The palate continues with notes of orchard fruits, citrus, and a hint of minerals.
  
  Pair this with salmon, chicken, shellfish, or simply enjoyed on its own
  
  Structure Breakdown:
  Acidity: High
  Body : Medium

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  4/16/2024 - novocane Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Fourchaume, a premier cru vineyard on the north side of the Serein river, can offer a distinctive and even grand expression of Chablis. I’ve been exploring lessor known Chablis producers and this L Chatelain fit the bill. Even though it has a James Suckling 92 rating sticker on the bottle, this red flag didn’t scare me off.
  
  Paired with fried ginseng, spicy pork foot, stir fried vegetables.
  
  From chilled 750mL, pop and pour. Cork pull cleanly.
  
  Color - medium straw with some greenish shades.
  
  Nose - fresh lemon, verbena, saline, little minerality.
  
  Taste - fresh acidity at front, lemon, verbana, saline. At middle subtle notes of pear, Fuji apples. At the back grapefruit, rocks, minerality with with distant floral scents.
  
  It’s not bad, but no Dauvissat. 89/100

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  11/15/2023 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Popped and poured, Chatelain's 2022 Chablis Fourchaume offers plenty of citrus, pear, lemon verbena, wet stone and pressed floral aromas. Medium-bodied, crisply acidic, softly oaked and with seamless alcohol (13.5%), it delivers flavors in line with the aromas but thins a bit on the mid-palate, subsequently resurrecting a medium-to-long, chalky finish. Give this at least an hour of air if you choose to pop the cork at this early stage, but it would be preferable to give it more time in the cellar. If this evolves as anticipated, the middle palate will fill in and the wine will gain complexity. With this in mind, I strongly suspect that it will ultimately merit a higher score. Drink 2027-2037.

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