2016 Chablis Les Preuses
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The 2016 Chablis Les Preuses Grand Cru is aged in three and five year old barrel for one year and then in stainless steel for 6 months. This comes from 60-year old vines. It has a very delicate bouquet at first the Les Preuses opens with aeration, citrus fruit with white peach and a touch of egg shell. The palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, quite saline in the mouth with a little chewiness thanks to the phenolic finish that should be intriguing to watch mature in bottle. Give this three or four years and you will be repaid, but it will give 15+ years of pleasure.
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Neal Martin
William Kelley, Wine Advocate
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The 2016 Chablis Grand Cru Les Preuses wafts from the glass with an exotic, musky bouquet of spicy apricot and peach. On the palate, it's full-bodied and ample but hard to read, oscillating between a lavish, gourmand expression of fruit and somewhat tart angularity. The balance here is questionable.
About the producer
Samuel Billaud started making wine under his own name in 2009, but he is one of the most experienced producers in Chablis, having made wine in the region since 1985.