1999 Chablis Les Clos

Palish yellow. Alluring scents of orange peel, floral honey, vanilla, marzipan and flinty minerality suggest a wine that's pretty close to fully mature. Dense, very rich and ripe and supple, with flavors of orange blossom, sea salt and crushed shells lifted by a lavender topnote. But this fine-grained, very dry wine, in spite of its very healthy acidity, is not quite as high-pitched as the 2000 version. (4.4 g/l acidity; from a crop that Dauvissat described as huge)