Tasted in Chablis with Thomas Labille, 15 January 2021.

Domaine du Chardonnay
Moulin du Pâtis
89800 Chablis
Tel: +33 3 86 42 48 03
www.domaine-du-chardonnay.fr
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Thomas on 2019:
“2019? It was a good year for us. It was sunny and produced grapes with good maturities. We harvested a bit earlier – so most of the wines are around 12.5°. As for the volumes, I can only describe them as average. We have a little more volume in 2020 – but not a lot. The biggest problem in each of the recent years has been the drying of grapes on the vine – the grilling of the grapes – it seems to happen less with the millerand grapes though.”

The wines…

The Petit Chablis was always a honey here, but I found less distinction in the wines that followed – but for the second consecutive vintage I see an extra clarity to the other wines – all are now very good to excellent.

Not all the 18s are yet sold so not all the 19s are yet bottled – they are hoping to start bottling the 1er crus from February:

2019 Petit Chablis
Vines in Beines, Prehy and the plateau behind the Grand Crus – 8 months in stainless steel and a little enamel for elevage – ‘We have a big 9-hectare parcel, so we are looking for something easy to drink.’
Wide, open, attractive citrus, almost with a little menthol extra. Always a lovely PC here and this is no exception; mouth-watering, nicely but not overly structured and very delicious.

2019 Petit Chablis No sulfur
Zero-added, even at bottling. But the notation about the elevage you will only find on the back label of this cuvée.
The nose implies more roundness of riper fruit – perhaps mirabelles. Extra intensity, clearly very mineral – fine clarity – a texture with some finishing tannin. And very long too – that’s a lovely wine.

2019 Chablis
A large, open freshness of aroma – very attractive. In the mouth, this is bubbling with energy, Round but with a nice cut. Very wide – a nice intensity and clarity of flavour – quite concentrated and long – very tasty wine.

2019 Chablis Paradis
Vines in Chichée
Very fresh – a lovely perfumed nose again a suggestion of menthol. More structural, for waiting for, but there is super clarity here and a delicious finish. Lovely width too…

2019 Chablis 1er Vosgros
Just under 1 ha a mix of 2 parcels, one steep and south-facing, plus another small parcel in Vaugiraud. Vine ages between 5-30. Like a Roman amphitheatre. Like the others all stainless-steel elevage, but here also with about 10% barrel.
Pure fresh, direct – a great nose – there’s even a little new oak in this – but I don’t see it in the nose. A saline extra on the palate – wide with fine clarity, easy over the palate – excellent wine.

2019 Chablis 1er Mont de Milieu
0.69 hectares. Small parcels so one of the smallest cuvées here – Some barrel elevage but older barrels than for the Vosgros.
That’s a vibrant nose. Mouth-filling, structural – not facile wines here – a grain of tannin framing the flavours. Wide more agrume bitters in this long finish.

2019 Chablis 1er Montmains
3 sectors, but all Montmains, 3.85 hectares.
A big freshness of agrume aroma. More scale and more bubbling energy – but there’s more gas here too. Similar citrus bitters in the finish. Great complexity and completely delicious, moreish, flavour. Excellent wine.

2019 Chablis 1er Les Lys
¾ barrel elevage – older barrels.
A riper fruit, deep but still fresh. Rounder, sweeter, layered flavour – there’s concentration here, slowly mouth-watering. Delicious but in terms of mouth-watering energy – the lowest level here.