The 2020 Chablis Hommage a Louis Grand Cru has an already irresistible bouquet of beautifully defined yellow fruit, limestone, red apple and white peachy aromas. The palate is very harmonious, distinctly saline and quite powerful. The intense, spicy finis...
The 2020 Chablis Montmains 1er Cru is another precise, steely classic Chablis from Benoit Droin. The palate is beautifully balanced and poised, showing good concentration and wonderful cohesion and salinity toward the finish. I cannot wait to taste the fi...
The 2018 Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru is a dense, spherical wine built on power and texture. Lemon confit, apricot, marzipan, dried flowers, chamomile all build as this creamy, voluptuous Chablis shows off its vivid personality. Bright saline notes cut thro...
The 2020 Meursault Genevrieres 1er Cru has a fragrant bouquet that leaps from the glass with wonderful orange pith, grilled hazelnut and pine nuts, a touch of smoke, tres Meursault. The palate is well balanced with. a fine bead of acidity, fresh and poise...
(from recently replanted vines totaling 1.04 ha; aged in 50% wood but only a small percentage is new). This is also ripe but agreeably cool with its very fresh aromas of green fruit, just sliced citrus and oyster shell wisps. There is exceptionally good v...
The 2022 Chablis Montée de Tonnerre 1er Cru has a clean, precise bouquet that is more austere than Droin's other Premier Crus at the moment. More to give? (Droin mentioned this had just undergone some filtration). The palate is well-balanced with a crisp ...
The 2022 Chablis Montmains ler Cru offers scents of grapefruit and orange rind on the nose, less flamboyant than the Vaillons, yet showingimpressive delineation already. The palate is well-balanced, with a tangy opening and hints of marmalade infusing th...