2012-CHABLIS-Domaine-Laurent-Tribut

CHABLIS

2012 Domaine Laurent Tribut

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Chablis
ABV 12.5%

Has that cedary woody quality that is so classic old-style Chablis. No fruit descriptors come to mind but it does have fruit, you just can’t give it a name. Old school but well made in that style. Very crisp finish. Drinking range: 2015 - 2018 Rating: 16.5 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Dec 2015)


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The 2012 Chablis has a light nose of citrus peel, hints of dried honey and wax: a little straightforward but clean and pure. The palate is balanced with primal grapefruit and spice notes with decent weight coming through on the finish. Drinking range: 2014 - 2017 Rating: 86 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Aug 2014)

Strong oyster shell minerality and a note of wet stone on the nose; less fruity than the young 2013 version. Plush, fine-grained and quite dry, with noteworthy, almost 2010-like inner-mouth tension to its flavors of lime, menthol and crushed stone. A rich but classic village wine with a rising back end. Rating: 90 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Jul 2014)

A cool and pure nose of sea breeze, floral notes and citrus zest precedes energetic and lightly mineral-inflected middle weight flavors that possess good balance and verve. This is not especially dense but it’s by no means dilute and should reward 3 to 5 years of cellar time. 2016+ Rating: 87-90 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Oct 2013)

Domaine Laurent Tribut

Laurent Tribut is married to Vincent Dauvissat's sister, Marie Clotilde. When he started he made his wines in the Dauvissat cellar in Chablis, but now this small family-run domaine is based in Poinchy. Laurent has now officially retired and has now handed over to three of their four children (Solange, Adeline and Gabriel), with Solange taking the lead in the winery. With Laurent’s guidance the future here looks very bright.

With just 6 hectares the quantities are small - but the quality of all the cuvées is extraordinary. Pure, powerfully driven, classically shaped there is more than a passing similarity to the wines of his brother-in-law, the head-line grabbing Vincent Dauvissat. Buyers will enjoy these long-lived wines with some time in bottle too - they have a great ability to age and patience will pay off, we recently tasted the 1er Cru Côte de Léchet 2004 with Laurent in his cellar and it was bright, young and full of vigour - nearly 15 years on, and in 2020 the 2000 Beauroy was still in it’s prime. This is brilliant, classic Chablis.

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