CHABLIS

From bottle, the 2016 Chablis Grand Cru Les Preuses is the most reticent wine in the cellar, unfurling slowly with aromas of orange blossom, oatmeal, wet stones and honeycomb. On the palate, it's full-bodied, tense and stony, with excellent depth and dimension. It's not as lively or intense as the 2017 rendition, but it's a very serious wine that will demand some bottle age before it reveals all its plenitude. Drinking range: 2023 - 2036 Rating: 94+ William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Aug 2018)

(from a 1 ha parcel planted in 1970). An airy, elegant and cool nose displays aromas of lemon-lime, white peach and sea shore whiffs. The incredibly refined yet highly seductive medium-bodied flavors possess excellent mid-palate density while delivering superb length on the sneaky long finish. This is clearly still very young but the natural class of a fine Preuses is very much in evidence. Drinking range: 2024 - Rating: 92-95 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2018)

The 2016 Chablis Grand Cru les Preuses was sleeping when I tasted it from barrel, in the sense that you could tell it is laden with attractive, quite honeyed aromas that they will only be released once given appropriate bottle age. The palate is smooth and slightly honeyed in texture, understated on the entry and it is easy to almost miss the intensity that only hits home once the wine has departed, like a latent reaction. It is a deeply complex les Preuses that will need a decade in bottle to show what it is really made of. But you already know that you are in the presence of something special. Drinking range: 2026 - 2050 Rating: 95-97 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Dec 2017)