2023 Picq Chablis En Vaudécorce 750ml

91-93 points - Neal Martin, Vinous
'...a mixture of white and yellow fruit with a touch of flintiness underneath. The palate is quite attacking on the entry, tensile and focused. It gradually builds toward a cohesive and satisfying finish. This has similar potential to the excellent 2022. 

89-91 points - Jasper Morris
Lemon with a touch of lime in the colour. The most elegant of the three to date on the nose. A fine limewash across the palate with the stones to follow. Still shows in an elegant fashion. There is easily enough depth of fruit here and no honeysuckle. Ripe lemon zest instead. 

89-92 points - Allen Meadows, Burghound
An interesting nose reflects notes of green tea, iodine, crushed fennel and green apple. There is slightly better volume, and noticeably more power to the energetic medium-bodied flavors that also exude evident minerality on the clean, dry and youthfully austere finale. This well-made effort almost always punches above its weight and this version should be no different. If you can find it, buy it as villages-level Chablis doesn't get much better than this in 2023. 

94 points - Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
A unique, one hectare site, up and near premier cru vines. A distinct personality here. This grippy, crushed rock and river stone minerally feel and texture. Yes thanks. Cool brine under green apple, red apple, a little haze of let’s say, well, cloudy apple juice, but not cloudy, just so. A clatter of crunchy citrus, green pear, soft citrus. There’s some creaminess here too, but a pleasing glide, more or less, in feel, rather than much more. A little bitter melon through the back. Very nice to drink.

Allen Meadows 2023 Vintage
Didier Picq, who with his brother manages this 14.3 ha domaine, noted that the 2023 growing season "was more difficult than 2022 but easier than 2021. There was some early season frost risk that didn't do much damage but the ensuing attack of mildew was no joke as it caused quite a bit of damage. Otherwise, it was fairly easy to manage and we ultimately chose to begin picking essentially spotless fruit on the 11th of September and continued through to the 24th. Yields were perfectly good but certainly not high as they ranged from 50 to 60 hl/ha. Potential alcohols were not especially high either at between 11.5 to 12.5% and those wines that came in at the lower levels of that range were lightly chaptalized. The acidities weren't high either, though they weren't low either as the post-malolactic pHs came in right at 3.35, which is perfectly okay if not what I would call ideal. Stylistically, I would describe them as basically classic and a blend of 2021 and 2022." Note that the house style is ultra-pure with no wood, and I can vouch from personal experience that the wines age extremely well. Lastly, I had the chance to review two now in-bottle wines from 2022, both of which are lovely.