Tatsed with Carine Jolly in Maligny, 25 January 2023.

Domaine Jolly & Fils
2 Rue Auxerroise
89800 Maligny
Tel: +33 3 86 47 42 31
www.domainejolly.com

Carine on the recent vintages:
“2022 – for us, it’s a normal volume. It certainly wasn’t like the volume that we saw in 2018, that’s for sure, but we still had a bit of VCI. Actually, 2021 here wasn’t as bad as in some places – we ended up at about half a harvest – we know that it could have been worse. But the 2021 wines are largely sold – certainly our Petit Chablis is all gone – so we’ve already made a small bottling of the 2022 version – just last week.”

The wines….

Good wines – thou most is now sold from 2021 – the sample of 2022 – an explosion of fruit today – you will have to wait longer for some Chablis character.

DIAM seals since 2008 here:

2021 Chablis
This was bottled at the end of March.
Not so wide but this has depth and an attractive, slightly sweet, note. Hmm – juicy, fluid, slightly supple – just a nose short of completely excellent Chablis today. The nose is starting to open after a couple of minutes – that’s becoming better and better – excellent wine!

2021 Chablis 1er Fourchaume – Homme Mort
From the part nearest Maligny and Opposite the pump for the aspersion.
This nose opens well, showing some golden-citrus energy. Fine volume and there’s some concentration here – despite the large shape, here’s a wine that’s a little tight – it seems to have everything but today it doesn’t want to share it. I’d be happy to have this in my cellar but I’d be waiting for 2-3 years – it’s serious today!

And for the road…

2022 Petit Chablis
One week in bottle.
Big, explosive and fruity – settling slowly in the glass – this slowly starts to show a bit of Chablis character. Concentrated, supple, more fruit than mineral today but not overly ripe – I’d still wait 6 months for this – maybe longer – but this is open, approachable tasty wine – just (blind) hard to place in Chablis today – give it time.