Winemaker Notes
Aromatically the wine is full of mixed citrus flavors such as lemon zest as well as lime zest, along with a peppery note. On the palate, the wine is precise with its acidity, along with just underripe peaches and a breathe note of creaminess from its contact with lees.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
A clear fresh lemon and lime colour. The bouquet is very pure, without great demonstration. This is quite tightly wound on the palate, building in concentration, more white apple than yellow plums, displaying impressive density throughout. And persistence too, this is very good which has helped it retain its class and freshness.Barrel Sample (92-94)
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Decanter
Shows richness and ripeness on the palate, countered by pretty strident acidity. Not quite at its best at the moment and likely needs 12 months in bottle. Should then open out and be a fine example.
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Vinous
The 2022 Chablis Montée de Tonnerre 1er Cru has a backward and stony nose–it has closed up since I tasted it last year. The palate is quite candied on the entry with Clementine and touches of mango, a hint of spice towards the finish that feels rather linear and correct. Moderate length.
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.