Domaine Barat Chablis 2018
Domaine Barat Chablis 2018Domaine Barat Chablis 2018
Winemaker Notes
Beautiful shiny gold-green reflections, it is characterized by a floral nose, a lively and iodized mouth with a beautiful persistence.
Joelle & Michel Barat are descended from five generations of wine growers. The pair launched their own label in 1972, and in 2000, their children, Angele & Ludovic, joined them in running the family estate.
Domaine Barat is located about a mile outside of the city of Chablis in the village of Milly. The vineyards are managed by Ludovic, who works with organic, herbicide-free fertilizers and viticulture practices, and green pruning. The estate’s coveted vines are planted on South-facing slopes, on Kimmeridgian and Portlandian marl formed millions of years ago during the Jurassic era when the sea covered Chablis. Even today, the mineral-rich clay-limestone soil remains plush with marine fossils, which lend an intense and vivacious minerality and freshness to the wines.
Domaine Chanson Chablis Grand Cru Les Preuses 2016 France
Domaine Chanson Chablis Grand Cru Les Preuses 2016 FranceDomaine Chanson Chablis Grand Cru Les Preuses 2016
Les Preuses is the Grand Cru of Chablis at the Northern end of the Grand Cru area. It is one of the smallest Grand Cru Climat and covers 11.4 ha. The vines selected by Chanson are ideally located right in the heart of the plot. This brings to the wine the specific minerality of this terroir.
The Vintage 2016 : After a cool and rainy winter and a frost episode in April, the weather at the end of spring was warmer but rainy which engendered a late flowering and millerandage (grapes of small size) The summer was warm and dry. September was warm and the harvest took place at the end of the month under a bright sunshine. Vinification : after a mild pressing, this wine was vinified and aged for 10 to 14 months in oak casks in our cellars of the XVth century. Moderate proportion of new oak.
Tasting : Gold colour. Floral fragrances mixed with citrus fruit aromas and pale fleshed fruit. Expressive minerality. Well balanced and elegant texture. Delicate. Refreshing and slightly salty afertaste. Scores : 18/20- COUP DE COEUR – Guide de la Revue du Vin de France 2019 – 17/20 Jancis Robinson – 90/100 Burghound
Domaine Daniel Dampt Chablis 2019
Domaine Daniel Dampt Chablis 2019Domaine Daniel Dampt Chablis 2019
An elegant Chablis, fresh and lively with crisp green apple notes. Aged in stainlesssteel to retain its distint Chablis flavour.
Cellar up to 8 years.
Resulting from a family of winegrowers dating back 150 years, Daniel DAMPT has joined his domaine with that of his father-in-law’s, Jean DEFAIX.
The estate currently counts 30 hectares of vines in production, including 16 hectares of CHABLIS and 14 hectares of Chablis Ier Cru of which in particular of Vaillons, Fourchaume, Cote de Lechet, Les Lys and Beauroy.
The recently constructed cellaris equipped with stainless steel tanks. The purchase of modern, powerful cellar equipment has enabled the group to increase its production of bottles, which now stands at 150000 bottles per year.
All Daniel Dampt’s wines are produced and bottled by the domaine. This means all his wines are made from grapes grown in his own vine yards, which is a crucial factor in the personnality and quality of the wines.
Now Vincent and Sebastien DAMPT work with their parents on the domain. They have made some training periods in New Zealand and Australia. They give some new ideas to the estate.
Domaine De La Motte Chablis 2017
Domaine De La Motte Chablis 2017A classic Chablis from vines grown on the famous Kimmeridgian clay with nervy, mineral fruit but added depth from a small, around 10%, addition of some oak aged wine into the blend.
Domaine Des Hates Chablis 375ml 2018
Domaine Des Hates Chablis 375ml 2018Domaine Des Hates Chablis 375ml 2018
The Story of the vineyard
Pierrick Laroche grew up in Maligny, the northernmost village in the Chablis appellation. His father farmed 200 hectares of cereals in the outlying hills, and always maintained a few hectares of vines to sell the production to the reigning co-op, La Chablisienne (an entity that accounts for roughly one quarter of Chablis production). Beginning in 1985, his father applied to the INAO for rights to increase his plantings by about an acre and a half, and did so every year thereafter. In 2006, Pierrick got his degree in enology at Beaune, did an internship at Villa Maria in New Zealand, and returned home to start life as a grower. A few years later, the domain expanded : construction of the cellar and extensions with a covered outside building to receive the grape harvest, installation of performing machinery. In 2008, the two brothers decided to use indigenous yeasts to preserve the naturalness of the wines.
The Winegrower
Pierrick Laroche quit his father’s practice of using herbicides and reduced applications of fungicide to contact and organic products, began plowing his vine rows, and worked on a design for a simple gravity-operated winery. He made his first commercial vintage in 2010—just 2,300 bottles, but they garnered him top billing of three stars in France’s wine magazine the Guide Hachette and many great awards ever since. England’s MW Rosemary George stumbled upon him around the same time in 2012 at Chablis annual post-harvest fair. She wrote: “Pierrick Laroche…has taken his family’s vines out of the cooperative and made his first vintage in 2010. And very good it is, too, with some firm, fresh minerality.”
”Almost all of his villages parcels are in the commune of Maligny, averaging thirty years of age and this cuvée is raised in stainless steel. The 2018 AC offers up a pretty bouquet of lemon,
apple, flinty minerality, dried flowers and a bit of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and nicely tensile for a 2018, with a good core, fine flinty soil
signature, lovely focus and grip and a long, complex and zesty finish. This is very good villages. Drink 2020-2035.’ 90 points, John Gilman, View from the Cellar, August 2020.
Domaine Laroche Saint Martin Chablis 2019
Domaine Laroche Saint Martin Chablis 2019Domaine Laroche Saint Martin Chablis 2019 –nose of citrus rind, quince and thyme that opens up to a dense, packed mid-palate of crunchy fruit. The finish is classic Chablis, chalky and minerally and incredibly smooth. The lengthy acidity is what makes it so versatile at the table and provides structure for great aging potential.
Domaine Ventoura Chablis 2017
Domaine Ventoura Chablis 2017Domaine Ventoura Chablis 2017
Tasting : Nose is warm with flavours of ripe fruits.
It is balanced with spicy notes of peels of orange.
Like nose, taste is harmonious, solar and pulpy.
Food and wine pairing : Oysters, smoked salmon, white meat
Gautheron Chablis 2019 France
Gautheron Chablis 2019 FranceGautheron Chablis 2019
Our Chablis are located on the right bank of the Serein. The soil is clay-limestone (Kimmeridgien). In its Chablis, the Gautheron estate seeks a balance between fruit and minerality.
Very beautiful pale gold color with soft green reflections. The nose is delicious, pure, floral and fresh. First of all, it favors flowers, then it gives us notes of peaches and apricots, and finally we discover the minerality. The palate is delicate and balanced. It combines maturity, elegance and freshness, supported in the end by a mineral touch.
MAN, SOIL, PLANT …
“Today we are aware of the major role we play in biological balance and respect for nature. ”
The Gautheron estate is proud of the land it inherited from its ancestors and wishes to save it for future generations.
The vineyard has now gone beyond the simple stage of reasoned pest management since in 2009, 3 hectares of the total surface were cultivated in organic farming.
Currently, we do not have the technical means to transform all of our production into organic farming.
Here are the main guidelines of the estate with the aim of respecting the environment and expressing the terroir:
Reduction in the dose of phytosanitary products.
Improvement of soil structure and bearing capacity.
Removal of weedkillers in favor of plowing or grassing.
Regulating the vigor of the vine with the help of soil analysis, shoots and petioles.
Limitation of yields by carrying out prophylactic control: disbudding (one or two passages per year) and green harvest (if necessary) to limit yields.
Dynamization of microbial life.
Stimulation of the vine’s self-defense (use of a decoction of nettles and horsetails in particular)
Since 1987, we have been harvesting mechanically to benefit from greater flexibility of intervention. Only a few plots, mainly old vines, are harvested manually.
The most important being the quality.
Georges Deschamps Petit Chablis 2019
Georges Deschamps Petit Chablis 2019Georges Deschamps Petit Chablis 2019
The fifth generation of his family at the helm of their eponymous estate, Guillaume Vrignaud has built upon the pioneering legacy which turned them into a beacon of sustainability in Chablis. With the Georges Deschamps range, Guillaume pays tribute to his ancestors and their focus on purity and terroir.
It was only when Guillaume joined the family operation in 1999 that Vrignaud started making its own wines. His father was, until then, a member of the Chablis co-op and took a bit of convincing to build his own winery and take the leap. Guillaume’s belief in the quality of their fruit and viticultural knowledge certainly paid off, having translated into wines that got immediate and wide acclaim, quickly allowing them to grow from 12 to the 29 hectares of vines they currently own.
Organic Petit Chablis, balanced with elegant texture. Notes of citrus, honeydew, white blossoms, almond and Granny Smiths. Refreshing, cool and pure.
