CHABLIS

2015 Domaine Adhémar et Francis Boudin

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

We tasted this at the domaine from tank with Francis and he was so pleased with the 'nervosity' in the wine. He's right - there is a scintillating brightness here. Reminiscent of the 2011, this is bright and zippy and loaded with intense green, pithy fruit. Delicious drinking from tank, it will no doubt put on some weight with time in bottle, but it is the bright spark that is so very enticing and remains at the heart of this wine. L&S (Nov 2015)


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Domaine Adhémar et Francis Boudin

Domaine Adhémar & Francis Boudin, also known as Domaine de Chantemerle, has supplied L&S since our very first list. Adhémar, who sadly departed on his 96th birthday, was a well-known personality, never short of a story. He was in the leading group of the pioneering growers who cleared scrub and planted some of the original Chablis vineyards. It was hard, and he only stopped keeping cows alongside ('if you didn't have a cow or two you died of hunger') in the mid-1950s. It is astonishing to think that the Premiers Crus were only defined in 1975.

Adhémar was the first to bottle the macabrely-named 'Homme Mort' Premier Cru separately, (it is usually sold as part of la Fourchaume) after a geologist confirmed his belief that it closely resembled the soil structure and exposition of the Grands Crus. The name is as a result of the discovery, when the vines were originally planted, of the body thought to be that of an English soldier from the Hundred Years’ War.

Francis Boudin, now aided by the next generation, his daughters Angélique and Virginie, as well as Angélique's husband, continues to make wines that are, for Chablis, rich and yellow gold, fatly concentrated, unoaked and pure, with a mildly buttery edge rounding out that minerally, stony ethereal Chablis character. These are wines which can be consumed with enormous pleasure in their first year after the harvest, or kept (even the simple Chablis) for several years.

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