2008 Chablis Butteaux
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Five years ago, I encountered a somewhat soft bottle of Raveneau's 2008 Chablis 1er Cru Butteaux, but this example was much better, exhibiting aromas of sweet orchard fruit, orange oil, beeswax and oyster shell, followed by a medium to full-bodied, satiny and precise palate, concluding with a chalky finish. It's drinking very well today.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
David Schildknecht, Vinous
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Bright greenish-yellow. Laid-back but pure aromas of lemon, ginger and wild herbs. Pure, fine-grained and elegant, with reticent, youthfully taut flavors of lemon and stone. Showed more texture with a bit of aeration and finishes very long and suave.
(in tank) Lemon and honeysuckle on the nose. At once rich and taut, with firm flavors of crystallized lemon peel and stone kept in check by strong acidity. This very tight, firmly constructed wine finishes with terrific grip. From vines averaging nearly 35 years of age.
The benefit of the older vines is apparent as this is notably more complex than either the Forêts or the Montmains with its broad-ranging nose of green fruit, citrus, tidal pool, wet stone and saline notes where the salt and mineral elements continue onto the detailed, intense and exceptionally pure flavors that ooze Chablis character on the palate staining and impeccably balanced finish. One to strongly consider. Allen Meadows, Burghound, Oct01,2009.