2005 Chablis Valmur
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Tasting notes
Tight, fresh, clean and stony. Very long. Hiding its colours. (JH)
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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(these very old vines reportedly produced just 25 hectoliters per hectare in 2005) Pale, green-tinged color. Classic pure Valmur aroma of lime, mint, crushed stone and iodine. Richly minerally and dense, with chalky, iodiney and saline qualities giving the wine a distinctly chewy character. This boasts terrific lift and tension, not to mention flavor definition. With its rather powerful spinal column, this wine finishes with a touch of austerity that suggests a long and slow evolution in bottle.
About the producer
Established in the late 1950s, William Fèvre was one of the leaders in Chablis’s renaissance. Today he crafts benchmark expressions of fine Chardonnay from some of the top vineyard sites in the region, working with many of the best Premier and Grand Cru vineyards.