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Revered for producing some of the most age-worthy wines in Chablis, Vincent Dauvissat’s bottlings are as rare as they are profound. With meticulous biodynamic practices, low-intervention winemaking, these are wines that speak of place with unmistakable precision. Highly respected and increasingly difficult to source, this cellar release offers a fleeting opportunity to secure benchmark Chablis from one of the region’s most lauded producers.
2020 Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons
$669 | Sale: $535
'...sensual and perfumed, wafting from the glass with aromas of orange oil, peach, jasmine and nutmeg. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and enveloping, it's vibrant and fleshy, with an ample core of fruit, racy acids and a long, saline finish.'
'...sensual and perfumed, wafting from the glass with aromas of orange oil, peach, jasmine and nutmeg. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and enveloping, it's vibrant and fleshy, with an ample core of fruit, racy acids and a long, saline finish.'
94 pts - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
2020 Chablis 1er Cru La Forest
$749 | Sale: $599
'..unfurls in the glass with aromas of crisp orchard fruit, orange oil, pear, oyster shell, freshly baked bread and smoke, framed by a deft touch of reduction. Medium to full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, it's taut and concentrated, with racy acids, chalky structuring and a long, searingly mineral finish. ... the 2020 is certainly a worthy entrant into the competition, and it's worth a special effort to seek out.'
'..unfurls in the glass with aromas of crisp orchard fruit, orange oil, pear, oyster shell, freshly baked bread and smoke, framed by a deft touch of reduction. Medium to full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, it's taut and concentrated, with racy acids, chalky structuring and a long, searingly mineral finish. ... the 2020 is certainly a worthy entrant into the competition, and it's worth a special effort to seek out.'
95+ pts - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
2020 Chablis Grand Cru Les Preuses
$2120 | Sale: $1695
'...full-bodied, ample and layered, with terrific concentration, racy acids and a long, intensely mineral finish. As ever, this wine is more floral-mineral than it is fruity, standing out for its ethereal personality in contradistinction with the blockier, more muscular Les Clos.' 97 pts - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
2020 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
$2200 | Sale: $1760
'..the king of the cellar—and the wine of the vintage. Wafting from the glass with aromas of citrus oil, fresh bread, oyster shell, white flowers and wet stones, it's full-bodied, layered and textural, with huge concentration, racy acids and a long, resonant finish.'
2020 Chablis Grand Cru Les Preuses
'...full-bodied, ample and layered, with terrific concentration, racy acids and a long, intensely mineral finish. As ever, this wine is more floral-mineral than it is fruity, standing out for its ethereal personality in contradistinction with the blockier, more muscular Les Clos.' 97 pts - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
2020 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
'..the king of the cellar—and the wine of the vintage. Wafting from the glass with aromas of citrus oil, fresh bread, oyster shell, white flowers and wet stones, it's full-bodied, layered and textural, with huge concentration, racy acids and a long, resonant finish.'
98 pts - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
2019 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
$1800 | Sale: $1439
'...You just need about 30 seconds and you are lost in the aromas. The palate is exceptionally well balanced with a nigh perfect thread of acidity. This Les Clos displays ethereal poise from start to finish and is blessed with a pixelated quality that distinguishes it from any other. Brilliant. Candidate for wine of the vintage.'
'...You just need about 30 seconds and you are lost in the aromas. The palate is exceptionally well balanced with a nigh perfect thread of acidity. This Les Clos displays ethereal poise from start to finish and is blessed with a pixelated quality that distinguishes it from any other. Brilliant. Candidate for wine of the vintage.'
96-98 pts - Neal Martin, Vinous
2018 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
$1718 | Sale: $1374
'..a full-bodied, layered wine that's ample and elegantly muscular, girdled by bright acids and revealing more overt structure than Les Preuses at this stage. Concluding with a long, chalky finish, even in the demonstrative 2018 vintage...'
'..a full-bodied, layered wine that's ample and elegantly muscular, girdled by bright acids and revealing more overt structure than Les Preuses at this stage. Concluding with a long, chalky finish, even in the demonstrative 2018 vintage...'
95+ pts - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
2017 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
$1918 | Sale: $1533
'..unfurls in the glass with aromas of ripe lemons, confit citrus, pastry cream and dried white flowers. On the palate, it's full-bodied, satiny and multidimensional, with a rich, structured but incisive profile and a long, chalky finish. If Les Preuses is the more intellectual of the two grand cru bottlings, Les Clos is the more direct and easy to understand.' 96 pts - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
2017 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
'..unfurls in the glass with aromas of ripe lemons, confit citrus, pastry cream and dried white flowers. On the palate, it's full-bodied, satiny and multidimensional, with a rich, structured but incisive profile and a long, chalky finish. If Les Preuses is the more intellectual of the two grand cru bottlings, Les Clos is the more direct and easy to understand.' 96 pts - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
2018 Chablis 1er Cru La Forest
$630 | Sale: $499
'..The wine is as pale in colour as others in the cellar, with an engaging freshness. In fact this does not come over as too ripe at all. There is significant weight here, white fruit, a touch fleshy at the back, a wine which is biding its time.'
'..The wine is as pale in colour as others in the cellar, with an engaging freshness. In fact this does not come over as too ripe at all. There is significant weight here, white fruit, a touch fleshy at the back, a wine which is biding its time.'
90-94pts- Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy
2016 Chablis 1er Cru La Forest
$630 | Sale: $499
'...really amazing lift here for a vintage with moderate acidity. Seamless and fine-grained, already offering compelling inner-mouth perfume to its flavors of citrus fruits, wild herbs, acacia flower, jasmine and minerals. The wonderfully aromatic, slowly rising finish boasts outstanding floral lift. [..]' 93pts - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
2015 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
$1597 | Sale: $1277
'...reveals oyster shell, quince, baking powder and flint scents. It is exquisitely defined. The palate is very well balanced with a lightly-honeyed opening, a keen thread of acidity and a subtle dash of spice that becomes more prominent towards the poised and elegant finish. What a beautiful les Clos that will vie with Vincent's les Preuses for supremacy.'
'...really amazing lift here for a vintage with moderate acidity. Seamless and fine-grained, already offering compelling inner-mouth perfume to its flavors of citrus fruits, wild herbs, acacia flower, jasmine and minerals. The wonderfully aromatic, slowly rising finish boasts outstanding floral lift. [..]' 93pts - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
2015 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
'...reveals oyster shell, quince, baking powder and flint scents. It is exquisitely defined. The palate is very well balanced with a lightly-honeyed opening, a keen thread of acidity and a subtle dash of spice that becomes more prominent towards the poised and elegant finish. What a beautiful les Clos that will vie with Vincent's les Preuses for supremacy.'
95 pts - Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate
2010 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
$1850 | Sale: $1480
'....cool, pure and equally classic green fruit, mineral reduction and oyster shell nose. The powerful medium-bodied flavors exude plenty of dry extract that confers a sappy texture upon the strikingly complex mid-palate though the saline suffused cuts-like-a-knife finish is chiseled, explosive and massively long. This is textbook Les Clos with size, power and explosive energy and offers a remarkable contrast to the Zen-like Preuses where its harmony and understatement are its primary strengths. One can admire both, but either way, they are impressive as hell.' 96pts - Allen Meadows, Burghound
2010 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos
'....cool, pure and equally classic green fruit, mineral reduction and oyster shell nose. The powerful medium-bodied flavors exude plenty of dry extract that confers a sappy texture upon the strikingly complex mid-palate though the saline suffused cuts-like-a-knife finish is chiseled, explosive and massively long. This is textbook Les Clos with size, power and explosive energy and offers a remarkable contrast to the Zen-like Preuses where its harmony and understatement are its primary strengths. One can admire both, but either way, they are impressive as hell.' 96pts - Allen Meadows, Burghound
WILLI SCHAEFER - PRE ARRIVAL (Arriving late June)
No one makes more classic and traditional Mosel than Christophe and Andrea Schaefer. When you see the steep sites of Graach (Dromprobst and Himmelreich) just near the cellar and taste the wines from the traditional old 1000lt barrels, you get a sense of the greatness and timelessness that this small estate exudes.
These are rare dry wines made from grapes grown in both of these Grossen Lagen sites. Cheers, Randall
No one makes more classic and traditional Mosel than Christophe and Andrea Schaefer. When you see the steep sites of Graach (Dromprobst and Himmelreich) just near the cellar and taste the wines from the traditional old 1000lt barrels, you get a sense of the greatness and timelessness that this small estate exudes.
These are rare dry wines made from grapes grown in both of these Grossen Lagen sites. Cheers, Randall
'… Andrea and Christoph Schaefer produced a tiny but oh so breathtaking line-up of wines in the 2021 vintage. The wines show great purity, finesse, but also huge presence and energy, and really show the best of the Mosel can offer, with lightness yet immense complexity. They are all at least great, even for both village wines…In a word: Bravo!“ “Mosel Fine Wine”
2021 Pre Arrival Riesling Mosel Graacher Trocken
'...coolish and pure yet also intense and provided with ripe and lush fruit intermingled with some hints of oak and a touch of banana, which fits in beautifully. Saline and crystalline on the palate, with intense, elegant and tangy fruit, this is a promising dry Riesling whose grapes predominantly come from the Himmelreich, but in this year, there are also some Domprobst kilos included.' 90+ pts - Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate
2022 Pre Arrival Riesling Mosel Graacher Trocken
'[..] Crystalline and focused. Brilliant stony aromatics mingle with hints of ginger and beeswax. The palate is finely etched, with petrichor and flinty, crushed-slate mineral flavours backed by lemon zest. There is a great intensity – it has fresh saline and is upright, yet it has an oak-influenced roundness of character.'
94 pts - Clive Pursehouse, Decanter
'The 2022s from Willi Schaefer... are once again uniquely delicately elegant, deep, juicy and lasting Rieslings, ' 93 pts - Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate
2018 Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Spatlese AUKTION
“AP: 10 19. The 2018er Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spätlese AP 10 was harvested at just above 90° Oechsle and was fermented down to fully fruity-styled levels of residual sugar. This offers telltale aromatics including pear, quince, greengage, laurel and caraway. The wine is packed with fruits, spices and herbs and yet remains incredibly filigreed right into the spicy finish. This is a superb effort and a great Spätlese with real Spätlese character.'
For Burgundy Insiders
2022 PYCM Hospice de Beaune Corton Blanc
2022 PYCM Hospice de Beaune Corton Blanc
Cuvée Doctor Peste Pre Arrival Offer: $1090
2022 was a very successful vintage for the Hospice, and chief winemaker, the talented and erudite Ludivine Griveau says she is impressed with the fruit and the tannins, (ie the phenolic structure giving long life) in the powerful 22 whites.
Being recognised and purchased in new barrels, and then raised by Pierre Yves Colin Morey makes this a benchmark white.
The Cuvée Docter Peste Corton Blanc, starting in 2022, comes exclusively from Corton Les Chaumes , which is situated above Corton Le Vigne au Saint and Clos de Cortons. The plot was originally pinot, but due to the limestone content was replanted over a decade ago to chardonnay. This is in the section on Les Chaumes directly below and close to Le Charlemange. This is “cheap” for a grand cru of such lineage and winemaking talent!
Click here to watch "Ludivine Griveau (winemaker) speaks about 2022' Hospices de Beaune wines" on YouTube. Timestamp 45 seconds to hear speak about the impressive tannins in the 2022 whites.
2022 was a very successful vintage for the Hospice, and chief winemaker, the talented and erudite Ludivine Griveau says she is impressed with the fruit and the tannins, (ie the phenolic structure giving long life) in the powerful 22 whites.
Being recognised and purchased in new barrels, and then raised by Pierre Yves Colin Morey makes this a benchmark white.
The Cuvée Docter Peste Corton Blanc, starting in 2022, comes exclusively from Corton Les Chaumes , which is situated above Corton Le Vigne au Saint and Clos de Cortons. The plot was originally pinot, but due to the limestone content was replanted over a decade ago to chardonnay. This is in the section on Les Chaumes directly below and close to Le Charlemange. This is “cheap” for a grand cru of such lineage and winemaking talent!
Click here to watch "Ludivine Griveau (winemaker) speaks about 2022' Hospices de Beaune wines" on YouTube. Timestamp 45 seconds to hear speak about the impressive tannins in the 2022 whites.
