Winemaker Notes
Notes of nectarine and a hint of thyme.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Patrick Piuze Chablis Coteau de Fontenay is a wine that Chablis lovers live for and immensely enjoy. TASTING NOTES: This wine excels with aromas and flavors of mineral notes, tart citrus, and chalkiness. Pair it with thinly-sliced Hamachi topped with razor-cut jalapenos and a sprinkle of soy. (Tasted: May 23, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Aromas of orange oil, iodine, white flowers, oyster shell and freshly baked bread preface the 2019 Chablis Coteau de Fontenay, a medium to full-bodied, satiny and precise wine that's seamless and elegant, concluding with a long, sapid finish. It's produced from a steep, windswept west-facing vineyard behind the Grand Cru hill on the right bank of the Serein.
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Wine Spectator
A fresh, vibrant white, with a green inflection accenting the apple, lemon and mineral flavors. Focused and long, shows an herb note on the finish. Drink now through 2025.
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.