Tasted with Jeremy Venon, 05 April 2022
Domaine Venon et Fils
10 rue des Prégirots, Fleys
89800 Chablis
Tel: +33 6 60 38 87 08
www.jeremyvenon.com
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Jeremy on 2022 and 2021:
“This year we have been trying to do everything at the last minute in terms of pruning to guard against the frost – it’s not sustainable for a large domine but we have some possibility here. If we look at 2021 – and some domaines suffered much worse of course – I averaged 27 hl/ha. So that was roughly half a harvest.”
Jeremy on 2020:
“2020 was about 47 hl/ha so a ‘low-ish’ volume but no worries at this level. And there’s some logic here as I’m planting more vines each year and in their first vintages, the young vines don’t provide a large rendement.”
The wines…
A couple of wines with a green accent but two more that are excellent/great. A very good address!
All the wines are sealed with DIAM:
2020 Chablis l’Expression
Vines next to Fourneau 1er. Here with a little barrel elevage too – 30% but 4 to 5-year-old barrels. This bottled in December.
A broad and fresh nose – faint green herbs – bouquet-garni. Broad, faintly tannic, with depth of flavour here. Hmm – that’s a lovely line – vibrant, clean finishing. A super finish long and tasty – excellent villages and for under €12 at the domaine – if there’s any left!
2020 Chablis l’Inattendue
A bit more oak in the elevage here – one-third – for the micro-oxygenation.
A more delicate but still pure nose – no visible barrel – faintly saline. More direct, some intensity too. A different style of complexity – lovely purity and long in a more mineral style. Not forceful but a properly great finish for a villages wine. Excellent again in a very different style.
Planted opposite the domaine. Some additional purchases to augment the domaine vines so that the cuvée wasn’t too small – ‘but only grapes and I’m very demanding!’ All oak but, again, Jeremy emphasises – only for the micro-oxygenation.
Narrow top notes but impressively broad and interesting at the base – lovely here. Wider yet somehow still direct – intense and pure – a cascade of beautiful flavour here – a great finish too. More than excellent – a simply top wine and no oak to see – really well-done!
2020 Bourgogne Pinot Noir
Molesmes – plain-south facing vines.
Bright and vibrant – crunchy fruit with an immodest pyrazine/gentian frame. Gentian floral, perfumed flavour. Broad then finishing with a more spiced width – a little aniseed here too. Very complex, very perfumed. Even for this palate (with a dislike of pyrazines) that’s a super-appealing wine.