£35 Fine Wine Musselburgh Gloagburn Farm Shop Quite a fat ripe Chablis, as you would expect from the hot 2018 vintage, but ideal for drinking now if you like your Chablis with mouthfilling texture and bodyĬHABLIS PREMIER CRU COTE DE LECHET 2020 Les Hauts de Milly (13%) Mealy musky aroma, but greatly improved by a richly layered creamy complex palate. Hits the brief with its green apple flavours, floral and limey hints, zippy acidity and mouthwateringly dry finish – a good classic under-stated fresh own-label example.ĬHABLIS PREMIER CRU 2018 Albert Lucas (13%) Tasters liked the neat combination of steely minerality with nutty creamy undertones and rich savoury layers of flavour. Tasted blind against other own label Chablis, this 2020 really stood its ground. THE SOCIETY’S CHABLIS 2020 JM Brocard (13%) ***GOOD VALUE*** Very approachable classic example from a consistently good vintage. Pear and apple fruit, clean brisk and elegant, not overly characterful but good savoury notes. Some tasters enjoyed its clean appley fruit and citric flavours, but others thought this disappointingly bland for 2020 vintage at this price. MORRISONS THE BEST CHABLIS 2020 Union des Viticulteurs de Chablis (12.5%) Made from 40 year old vines, this scored highest with our tasters for its creamy mouthfilling complexity aligned with appley acidity and mineral notes. This unoaked example has zippy freshness with rich concentrated fruit.Look out too for forthcoming 2020 vintage of Duplessis’ Petit Chablis.ĬHABLIS 2019 Domaine Claude Ecuelle (12.5%) ***STAR BUY*** Petit Chablis usually comes from young vines on younger limestone bedrock, but it can offer a great value introduction to the Chablis style. PETIT CHABLIS 2019 Domaine Duplessis (13.5%) Our tasting from across the vintages showed Chablis in all its guises from Petit Chablis through to the more terroir-driven intense Premier Cru and Grand Crus: In 2021 the fatal April ‘black frost’ hit early budding Chardonnay hard, reducing quantities dramatically to 50% of Chablis’ normal crop – with some vineyard parcels 80%-100% destroyed. In 2015 over 300 hectares were affected from frost in Chablis, whilst in 2017 frosts reduced quantity, but quality was very good. Hail and frost have beset Chablis in recent vintages, which will mean prices are due to rise as recent harvests have been very small, but often of exceptional quality. Other superb vintages are 2017 – a classic Chablis vintage which is ageing well – and 2014 with its lovely linear acidity. 2019 is another fine vintage with very concentrated fruit, compared to the softer lower acid earlier maturing wines from warmer 2018. Whilst it was an early ripening vintage, it had few heat spikes, so many of the wines I have tasted from this harvest have been beautifully balanced.
With the current run of fine vintages in Chablis, our shelves are stocked with some superb wines – which can offer very good value for money in comparison to other cool climate Chardonnays from leading appellations in the Cote d’Or in Burgundy.Ĭhablis’ 2020 vintage in particular offers very good consistent quality.
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