Tasted with Aline Valor in Chichée, 14 May 2024.
Domaine Jacques Picq et ses Enfants
3 Rue de Talmeau
89800 Chichée
Tel: +33 6 22 29 46 72
More reports with Domaine Jacques Picq…
I first asked Aline how 2024 was going:
“The right bank is okay but not the left bank; Vaugirot and Vosgros – here there may not be a lot”
Aline on their last two vintages:
“The 2023s we bottled 17 April though there are still a few bottles of 22 remaining in the cellar – but effectively all have been sold though we only commercialise 10k of bottles. We had 13.5° for the villages and 13° for the 1ers in 2023.”
The wines…
Simply delicious wines…
All with DIAM seals:
2022 Chablis
It’s only old vines here 60-70 years old…
Fresh and with a medium breadth – attractive yellow citrus here. Melting, mineral, lovely flavour. A small salty finish too – I love that – really very classy villages that holds well in the finish.
2022 Chablis 1er Vaucoupin
More direct and deep – a more vertical nose. Extra width on the palate though – faintly strict in shape – lovely architecture and so long. Love it – but keep it 2 or more years before opening. Aline says 3-5 years…
And 2023s?
2023 Chablis
One month in bottle
An extra ripeness but still freshness to this yellow citrus nose. It’s a bundle of energy – really mouth-filling, with some mineral base, slowly fading. Keep a year for the wine to become more direct and more tight and Chablis in style. Yum…
2023 Chablis 1er Vaucoupin
Vines planted by grandfather – some nearly 70-years-old.
Narrower and more direct aromas – that’s a very nice yellow citrus nose – nothing in excess. Hmm, more depth of fruit flavour – more muscular and with a modest zestiness in the middle and finishing flavours – and the flavour rolls over the palate for some time in this finish. Just an excellent wine and I’d wait 2-3 years to have less generosity
And for the road?
2019 Chablis
Hmm – that already has a lovely development – modest but with extra breadth to the complexity. Lovely scale in the mouth, complex, sweet, almost a richness without being heavy – that’s just so delicious today – beautifully mineral here !!