Winemaker Notes
Pale gold in color with soft green highlights. The nose is fresh and floral. It expresses subtle aromas of caramel, white flowers and butter. The palate is delicate and structured, distinguished by a harmony between richness, suppleness and power of the fruit.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
The 2022 Chablis Bougros Grand Cru has an enchanting fresh and vibrant bouquet, citrus lemon, apple blossom and crushed stone blossoming from the glass. The 2022 is very well-defined. The palate is fresh and crisp with real edginess. With lovely depth and palpable energy with just a touch of reduction on the finish, this is one of the best Grand Crus in 2022.
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Vinous
The 2022 Chablis Bougros Grand Cru has an enchanting fresh and vibrant bouquet, citrus lemon, apple blossom and crushed stone blossoming from the glass. The 2022 is very well-defined. The palate is fresh and crisp with real edginess. With lovely depth and palpable energy with just a touch of reduction on the finish, this is one of the best Grand Crus in 2022. Tasted blind at the BIVB tasting in Chablis.
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Jasper Morris
In common with most of the grands crus, the 2022 Bougros is aged in 500 litre barrels. Nothing racked. Mid lemon yellow. There is a biscuity touch from the wood. A bit out of balance on the palate at the moment, the wood has the upper hand though the marine intensity of the finish suggests that this will fight back. Barrel Sample: (91-94)
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
The source of the most racy, light and tactile, yet uniquely complex Chardonnay, Chablis, while considered part of Burgundy, actually reaches far past the most northern stretch of the Côte d’Or proper. Its vineyards cover hillsides surrounding the small village of Chablis about 100 miles north of Dijon, making it actually closer to Champagne than to Burgundy. Champagne and Chablis have a unique soil type in common called Kimmeridgian, which isn’t found anywhere else in the world except southern England. A 180 million year-old geologic formation of decomposed clay and limestone, containing tiny fossilized oyster shells, spans from the Dorset village of Kimmeridge in southern England all the way down through Champagne, and to the soils of Chablis. This soil type produces wines full of structure, austerity, minerality, salinity and finesse.
Chablis Grands Crus vineyards are all located at ideal elevations and exposition on the acclaimed Kimmeridgian soil, an ancient clay-limestone soil that lends intensity and finesse to its wines. The vineyards outside of Grands Crus are Premiers Crus, and outlying from those is Petit Chablis. Chablis Grand Cru, as well as most Premier Cru Chablis, can age for many years.