Winemaker Notes
Chablis is located in the northern part of Burgundy, half way between Dijon and Paris. The vineyard size is 3 225 ha. The Premier Cru vineyards represent 20% of the total size of the Burgundy Premiers Crus. There are 40 "climates" of Premiers Crus among which Fourchaume.
Pale in color with a silvery rim. The nose is floral, with notes of honeysuckle and lime leaf. The palate is taut but shows the vintage's typical balance of opulent ripeness and lively acidity.
It will match perfectly all sorts of cuisine including vegetable, fish, poultry.
This wine can be drunk quite young but can also age easily up to 10-15 years in very good conditions of temperature and humidity.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
From one of the best known of the Chablis premier crus, this wine is pure fruit, crispness and structure. These come together in an harmonious whole, with white and citrus fruit flavors giving lift and freshness to the the taut texture. Drink this wine from 2022.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Chablis Fourchaume is often the stoniest and elegant of the premier crus and indeed the 2016 Louis Jadot performs as expected. TASTING NOTES: This wine is bright and racy. Its aromas and flavors of apples and stones make it a fine example, and a wine that should pair nicely with fresh salmon sashimi. (Tasted: January 23, 2018, San Francisco, CA)
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.