Winemaker Notes
Made from Chardonnay, this wine is matured in stainless teel thanks to ensure they retain the traditional character of true Chablis. This wine may show a slight tartrate crystal sediment. it is a natural phenomenon which indicates that the wine has not been treated and will no way affect its quality. The crystals will remain in the bottle if the wine is served with care.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Guillaume Michel observes that Les Clos is 'never ready to drink'. A powerful, compact and fine grand cru which has loads of potential. The vines were planted in 1968, on limestone/clay soils over oyster shell-rich marl. Density, a touch of spice, concentrated but also light on its feet. This will spend several more months in tank and will undoubtedly be a slow maturer. Will be very fine, but will need several years to show its best.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos is sourced from 0.5 hectares in the mid-slope, steep and stony site not far from Valmur. It derives from vines affected by le court-noué virus, delivering small berries of concentrated flavors and higher maturity. It soars from the glass with a deep bouquet featuring notes of lemon zest, beeswax and iodine mingling with oyster shell. On the palate, it’s taut and compact, the most incisive and precise of all grands crus this year. Despite its underlying power, it has retained a classically Chablisien character, similar to Michel’s Montée de Tonnerre. Concentrated and racy, it concludes with a long, mouthwatering finish. Rating:-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.