CHABLIS
2015 1er Cru Côte de Léchet Domaine Laurent Tribut
| Grapes | Chardonnay |
| Colour | White |
| Origin | France, Burgundy |
| District | Chablis |
| Classification | 1er Cru |
| ABV | 13% |
| Vineyard | Côte de Léchet |
From barrel and yet to finish its malo - this is still delicious to taste, if yet a little more melding together is needed. Lovely notes apple cobbler on the attack gain more lift and brightness, and give a super counterpoint to the tell-tale Lechet minerality. This is full of promise, and will be great - all in balance, but not yet all in perfect place. L&S (Jan 2017)
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Rating: 93 Tim Atkin MW, www.timatkin.com (Jan 2018)
Bright, pale yellow. Reticent, high-pitched scents of lemon, lime and minerals. Densely packed and very concentrated (the yield here was about 35 hectoliters per hectare) but youthfully inexpressive, showing more penetration and cut than the comparatively gentle young 2016. Bracing citrus flavors hint at a slight sweetness but this wine is still stunted by the spring bottling and its bone-dry finish is a bit tart-edged and disjointed. This was picked with an extremely low pH and finished its malolactic fermentation very late. (Tribut opened a bottle of the 2009 Côte de Léchet to compare it to the 2015. Although it began with sexy scents of lemon, white truffle, baked bread and oatmeal, it was neither as concentrated nor as taut as the 2015 version. The '15 will require as much aging as the very dry, tactile '09 but I believe it will be a more satisfying wine in the long run.) Drinking range: 2020 - 2027 Rating: 91 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Aug 2017)
A wonderfully fresh nose combines notes of various citrus elements with those of white flower, quinine and a hint of algae. There is a caressing mouth feel to the delicious, round and rich flavors that possess notably better complexity on the lingering finale where a hint of bitter lemon appears. 2019+ Rating: 88-91 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2017)
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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