2016 Louis Jadot Chablis Grand Cru Blanchot

The 2016 Chablis Grand Cru Blanchot (Maison Louis Jadot) is decisively marked by the vintage, offering up an exotic bouquet of honeyed peaches, apricot and citrus blossom. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, rich and unctuous, with broad shoulders and a generous attack, but balanced by incisive acids that lend the wine a structural tension that belies its musky, super-concentrated profile. In a sense, this is a decidedly atypical Chablis, even by the standards of Blanchot—yet it displays characteristics that were prized in vintages such as 1986 and even 1992; and while this 2016 is never going to rival the great wines from vintages such as that, it may well surprise with bottle age. Deduct or add several points depending on your affinity for exoticism and texture.