Winemaker Notes
Pale gold in color. Intense and fruity, with aromas of mandarin and pineapple on a soft background of fresh almonds. Fresh and generous, very typical of its appellation, showing a very pleasing minerality. The finale is long-lasting and saline, perfect to emphasize any type of seafood.Pairs well with fatty fish (salmon or bluefin tuna), sushi, sashimi, or poultry meat. It Will also perfectly match with Asian or exotic food. Try it also with goat cheeses, as well as French Beaufort, Comté, or with matured cheddars.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Quite a deep green-gold hue in the glass, there is plenty of depth and concentration on show here. Fleshy fruit on the palate is matched with a stony, mineral, zesty character and vibrant acidity. Quite stringent at the moment but give the wine another six months in bottle and it will blossom. Long, lingering aftertaste.
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.