Tasted in Montallery with Céline Courty-Chevallier, 18 January 2023.
Domaine Chevallier
6 rue de L’ecole
89290 Montallery
Tel: +33 3 86 40 27 04
www.chablis-chevallier.com
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Céline on 2022:
“2022? Yes, very happy – it brought the smile back. The quantity was very good and from the quality view it’s also a good vintage. All the alcoholic fermentations were done very quickly and the malos finished directly after – it was easy! The first couple of bottlings were done last week as the Petit Chablis is already gone from 2021.”
“Céline on 2021:
In 2021 we lost 2/3rds which means it was a similar quantity to 2016. But we like the minerality which I think we’ve lost a little since the 2018 vintage – it seems a vintage style that you can easily say sits between 20 and 21 – it’s just the number of bottles that is lacking.”
The wines…
It’s easy to separate the oaky wines from the wines of finesse just now – but if you are patient, I think that finesse will reign. Some lovely wines.
It’s mainly the new generation of Nomacorc for the first two wines and the others are generally Trescases cork:
2021 Petit Chablis
All tank elevage from about 3 hectares of vines in Beines
That’s a lovely and quite floral nose – a very fine invitation. No hard edges but there’s a width and a depth to these lovely flavours – only modestly structured but that’s a simply excellent wine – lovely – a wine of finesse!
2022(!) Petit Chablis
In bottle 1 week!
Extra aromatic intensity – this vibrates with energy – yes! Extra ripe but there’s the freshness and mouth-watering energy to balance, finishing very well. Very tasty wine!
2021 Chablis
A mix of Beine and Courgis and a small plot in Milly. Also 100% tank elevage. Representing about 8 hectares of vines.
An obviously more restrained nose than the 22 – though still fresh and round. Wide, pretty, almost incisive flavours – the line of finishing flavour that runs from the middle right through the finish is very lovely – that’s a very fine Chablis.
2021 Chablis Cuvée Presitge
The VV cuvée with 30% barrel elevage.
Yes, quite a forward barrel note here. A little less mouth-filling but still there’s a very nice focus to this mouth-watering flavour. Given the ever-present barrel note, I’d wait about 3 years before returning but this. Like the last, has a really super finish!
2021 Chablis 1er Montmains
All barrel elevage. Bottled July.
Yes, again the barrel is quite overt. A little sweet and sour complexity and extra salinity too – almost a suggestion of caramel here – delicious wine but for the real Montmains, wait 3-5 years!