Tasted in Milly with Sébastien & Vincent Dampt, 07 March 2023.
Domaines Daniel, Sébastien & Vincent Dampt
1 Chemin des Violettes
89800 Milly
Tel: +33 3 86 42 47 23
www.sebastien-dampt.com
More reports with Domaines Daniel, Sébastien & Vincent Dampt
Notes on ‘Vignoble Dampt’ in Collan, who are cousins, can be found (as usual) here.
On 2022:
“We are happy though actually the amount of juice was not as high as we expected given plenty of grapes. Some rain was forecast but we couldn’t guarantee it and the maturity and balance was already good so we started harvesting our 1er crus and all were – we would have done before the rain really did come – but we are still happy. It was a year that we didn’t do any de-leafing and we were happy with that as there was no roasting of the grapes on the vine by the sun.”
On 2021:
“Harvesting was also not so easy as the rain came and there was a bit more rot after that so the timing was complicated – the weekend would have been best but where do you find the people to harvest at the weekend? It was half a harvest in total but parts were much worse than that – Côte de Fontenay for instance was 7 hl/ha. It was a vintage that was marked by its acidity during elevage but it became more and more balanced during the elevage – still, the wines are strong and have tension but with a lovely balance.”
The wines…
Another year, another super tasting – like last year two wines with some green but the rest showed magnificently well – there is much to choose from here from 2021 – and again with great entry wines.
The wines have been mainly diam but the last couple of wines tasted not. From 2022 all the wines will be diam… The principal reason for moving all to diam is not corked wines, rather it is to open a bottle and have the same wine. Screwcap is also available for the Petit Chablis:
In Fyé near (above) 1er Berdiot. A combination of older and younger vines.
Hmm – that’s a lovely width of yellow citrus – very inviting. Broad, incisive – growing in great intensity – oh that’s so good. Great PC wine – finish with faint notes but great interest.
This from Milly – 0.35 ha, 10+ year-olf vines – a road between this and Villages Chablis, also close to the 1er crus…
More herbed, more depth, a faint green that grows. Yes in the mouth too – but the shape / the architecture – is really top, holding super-well in the finish. Insensitive souls will find this a great wine too…
2021 Domaine Vincent Dampt, Petit Chablis
Grapes in Fyé here with some from Troismes in Biene – 350-litre barrels used too.
Back to yellow citrus more direct and airy – very pure. Super direct – oh yes – I’m riding the wave of energy and juicy flavour with this wine – chill and drink (far too fast) in the summer or contemplate better in a year or three. Simply excellent wine.
2021 Domaine Daniel Dampt, Chablis
Assembly of parcels, 80% for Milly, plus Beine and Fontenay.
A vibrant nose – more citric but exciting – and then some white flower perfume – super. Depth of flavour here, cool, complex delicious – practically great again. Lots of acidity – but never aggressive
5 parcels, mainly older vines in Milly. Vieux Voie is the principle location.
Direct, deeper, more mineral but still floral. Extra width and even more dynamic. Extra saline and super-classic Chablis finishing. The only problem with this great wine is that the energy and intensity will take your thoughts away from your gorgeous dining partners…! Bravo!
2021 Domaine Vincent Dampt, Chablis
All Milly again – 50% from a single parcel of just over 2 ha.
Broad but not deep – almost a hint of reductive smokiness to this minerality – iodine and the sea. Mouth-filling, vibrant if slightly softer texture. Classic sea-shore Chablis with long finishing waves of flavour
All the previous wines brought in after the weekend rain of the harvesting period – the following 1ers were all harvested before the rain:
2021 Domaine Daniel Dampt, Chablis 1er Beauroy
0.5 ha, in the climat of Beauroy, just behind the Côte de Lechet, the soil has a very fine white clay that’s hard to work. Sometimes less acidity here but high ripeness – can be an opulent place.
This nose is narrower but deeper – the mineral aromas slowly growing more perfumed in the glass. Here is a bit more concentration and muscle – the flavours are impressive and complex but I’d wait 2 years for this – the finish is extra impressive!
2021 Daniel Dampt Chablis 1er Fourchaume
3 parcels, one in Vaupulent and 2 in Fourchaume
Also a vertical nose but here the emphasis is in the higher tones – floral and perfumed. Wide, vibrant – super citrus complexity – perhaps a faint mandarin orange. Long and fading finish. That’s more than excellent wine.
2021 Domaine Daniel Dampt, Chablis 1er Vaillons
4 ha, 60% Lys, 25% Chatains, the rest from Sechets. Vines older than 40.
A beautiful and vibrant nose – that’s a great one – yellow citrus complexity. A mineral direction here – melting over the palate showing more of the citrus energy and juicy style as it goes. Chalky finishing – a great finish and an excellent wine!
2021 Sébastien Dampt, Chablis 1er Les Vaillons
60-year-old vines in Beugnons in stainless-steel – 1 hectare.
A rounder riper citrus nose. Rounder, more mouth-filling energy – a wine of architecture – of fine shape – nothing particularly generous – proper Chablis shape – simply excellent and again such a fine finish – simply excellent again.
A mix of 2005 and 2011 vines, the largest part from Beugnons but this was also one of the most severely frosted parts.
Different again – a modestly broad nose with a vibration of energy but still a slightly ripe citrus. Wow impact – incisive, intense but gorgeously delicious. Great, great finishing. The nose is a hint behind today but the rest here is great wine!
2018 Domaine Daniel Dampt, Chablis 1er Les Lys
From the oldest parcel of vines in Les Lys – and the only one exposed north, made separately since 2001. 60-year-old vines directly on the hill above the winery. A part goes into his Vaillons, this is the ‘pure Lys’
Wide, nicely vibrant, citrus almost tending to golden but only modestly – still a fine freshness. Direct, mineral, super texture – for keeping – but more than excellent. Lovely salinity in this strong, mineral, finish too.
2021 Domaine Daniel Dampt, Chablis 1er Les Lys
A riper nose, approaching, but not quite, exotic citrus. Hmm – riper but structural and almost dynamic too – a super combination of ripe and classic – the finish a little saline. It could only come from Chablis.
2021 Domaine Sebastien Dampt, Chablis 1er Beugnons
Wax-topped bottles whose elevage was in a concrete ‘egg-shaped’ tank (since 2013) with built-in thermo-regulation – ‘It’s ‘raw’ concrete so there’s some oxygenation.’
This with a green accent but almost in the direction of mint. Broad, complex, green – depth of vibrant flavour and long finishing too. Another wine that if you’re insensitive – it’s absolutely super.
2021 Domaine Daniel Dampt, Chablis 1er Cote de Lechet
About 45-years-old on average, an assembly of 4 parcels, one large parcel running right from the bottom to the top. South, south-west facing, usually riper here.
Apart from a slightly later bottling the elevage is the same here but in this wine you find a warmer almost spiced width of citrus aroma. Depth of flavour, super texture, lots of minerality and finishing well – very different, very excellent!
2021 Domaine Sebastien Dampt, Chablis 1er Cote de Lechet
50 yo vines, a parcel of vines from bottom to top – Normally it’s the top of this parcel that will frost – in 21 it was the bottom.
A more direct yellow citrus nose, inflected with floral notes too for this one. Round and mouth-filling – lovely open flavour here that melts over the palate – the finish with a little grain of tannin – not quite chalky but very attractive. Super again.
2021 Domaine Vincent Dampt, Chablis 1er Cote de Lechet
“The historic 1er of Milly.” 0.80 ha, 1964-68 planting dates. Just one parcel due to some replanting – so ‘only old-vines.’
A riper nose of more golden citrus fruit. Mouth-filling less sweet but also more mineral – a golden finishing fruit that resembles the nose – a bit more Fourchaume in style. But a delicious Fourchaume!
2021 Maison Dampt Chablis Bougros
The proprietor picks later and the wine has been elevage in barrel – this time it was in barrel for the fermentations but then the rest of the time was in tank.
This nose has nice shape and an implied texture – though today the aromas are of the barrel-elevage. In the mouth, I find much more interest – not the largest scale but the most supple and calmly confidently concentrated wine. The finish shows the oak again but with a fine accent of salinity.