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CHABLIS

2016 Grand Cru Les Preuses Domaine Vincent Dauvissat

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WhiteFrance,BurgundyChablisGrand Cru 13%Les Preuses

(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 isn’t entirely classic but it’s clearly still very young and the natural class of a fine Preuses is very much in evidence. 2026+ Rating: 93 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Oct 2018)

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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)

A domaine of 12.7 hectares, comprising a hectare each of the Grands Crus Clos and Preuses, 3.7ha of Premier Cru Forest, 1.3ha of Vaillons, 0.4ha of Séchet, .3ha of Montée de Tonnerre, 3.3ha of Chablis, 1.1ha of Petit Chablis, and .6ha of Irancy (red).

Vincent Dauvissat remains one of the (if not the) leading lights of Chablis, and his wines are always in high demand and limited volume.

Vincent's grandfather Robert was the first to start bottling under the family name in 1931 and Vincent uses the same cellar today - but the family have been growing grapes here since the 18th century. Today his single-minded determination in the vineyard, where he follows biodynamic principles (without certification) followed by very subtle use of old oak barrels as part of a long élevage, produce some of Chablis' most age-worthy and fascinating wines.

Vincent advises drinking the Grands Crus either young, (within the first three years) or after 10 years when they are becoming fully evolved. Serve at 13C, so that the wine will warm up to about 15C before tasting - any colder masks the subtleties. He prefers to serve the wine directly in glasses rather than decanting it, so as not to miss the first nose and its evolution - with an old wine he advises simply smelling this evolution over the first half an hour before tasting.

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