Raveneau – 2023
Tasted with Isabelle Raveneau, in Chablis, 24 January 2025. Domaine François Raveneau 9 rue de Chichée 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 (0)3 86 42 17 46 More reports with Domaine François Raveneau. Isabelle on 2024: “Maybe when we were so badly hailed in 98 the volumes were similar but recently there’s… Read More
2023 Chablis: The Vintage from Planet Chardonnay?
Chablis 2023 – end of July – the last traces of mildew… It’s been a pleasure tasting the delicious wines of 2023 in Chablis this year – but there’s an obvious elephant in the room that needs to be addressed: Chablis 2023 – My Summary: For a vintage finishing in… Read More
2021 White Burgundy Part 3 – Chablis
Part 1: 2021 Mainly Mâconnais – Sept 2022 Part 2: 2021 Central Burgundy – Oct 2022 Part 3: 2021 Chablis – Jan 2023 (Here) Right – unsurprisingly, this is how the 2021 vintage in Chablis will be remembered. Image 08h30… Read More
2018 Chablis – What a surprise!
Our basic starting point for surprise is the harvest in 2018; growers suggest only days before they harvested, that they thought that there would be ‘not much juice.’ If we are comparing to 2017 where some domaines pressed hard and actually didn’t get much juice, that might be fair –… Read More
2017 Chablis – An Enigma…
Why an enigma? Well, 2017 was a very precocious year – partly for that reason was so much of the potential volume lost to frost – but it wasn’t just a precocious vintage, it was a hot vintage too – a year of sunshine – and one of the… Read More
2016 Chablis
Straight to the point: 2016 is like 2015 in that it is another delicious vintage in Chablis. Differing from 2015, the wines of 2016 are, generally, more classically Chablis due to having a fresher fruit profile – they have finesse and punch – but I quickly found 3 style… Read More
The others tasted…
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were mainly drunk with food, friends and family, between October 2012 and mid-December 2012 – so as you can imgine, not a massive list as it’s only a few weeks since the last report. I would have liked… Read More