Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
An exposed site that sits on a vein of limestone with very little topsoil. The density here is staggering. Very intense and long with super minerals and intense tautness through the palate. This will age well. Try from 2022.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
A new cuvée, from 56-year-old vines whose grapes Piuze has long coveted, the 2017 Chablis 1er Cru Séchet offers up lovely aromas of lemon oil, blanched almonds, dried white flowers and oystershell. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, saltine and tangy, with bright acids, excellent concentration and a striking sense of completeness. With its inaugural vintage, the Séchet is already making a strong claim to rank among Piuze's best cuvées.
Barrel Sample: 92-94 -
Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: After tasting the outstanding Patrick Piuze Chablis, I now conclude that I have been living under a rock for much of my life. I discovered this wine at a recent trade tasting and was astounded. The 2017 Patrick Piuze Premier Cru Les Séchets Chablis is a stunning wine. Its aromas and flavors of tart citrus, green apple, and brisk minerality are classic and delicious. Pair it with simply prepared shellfish, and you will be in another place and time. I am now inspired to search for more undiscovered treasures in the wine world. (Tasted: March 4, 2019, 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.