2008 Chablis Les Clos
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From a cool, late-ripening season shaped by northerly winds just before harvest, the 2008 Chablis Grand Cru Clos is a chiseled, higher-acid wine that recalls the Chablis of yesteryear. It emerges from the glass with a bouquet of Anjou pear, Granny Smith apple, lemon peel and beeswax, mingled with notes of oyster liquor. On the palate, the wine is medium- to full-bodied, multidimensional yet incisive and built around an electric line of acidity that imparts drive before concluding with a long, saline finish. It captures the vintage’s character in full.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
The Wine Advocate
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(from 4 separate parcels totaling 4.11 ha, 3 of which are all at the top of the slope). Here too the elegance of the nose is simply stunning with a layered and perfumed aromatic profile trimmed in an almost invisible touch of oak that allows it to ooze Chablis character and in particular, a fine minerality that continues onto the impressively concentrated and palate staining flavors that possess striking precision on the explosively long and bone dry finish. This is a great Les Clos that will make old bones.
Pale yellow-green color. Manages to be both explosive and reduced on the nose, offering strong notes of lime peel, seashell, spices, mint oil, white flowers and smoky, flinty minerality. Extremely backward on the palate, showing hints of smoked ham and dusty stone. Less silky and tactile today than the C o te Bouguerots but this will ultimately be the more complex wine. The extraordinary palate-saturating finish is like chewing on rocks today.
Concentrated, fine and refined. Intensely mineral and dry. Fresh with a sort of peppery spice on the finish but it’s more the texture than the flavour – tongue-tingling. Very long. (JH)
About the producer
Established in the late 1950s, William Fèvre was one of the leaders in Chablis’s renaissance. Today he crafts benchmark expressions of fine Chardonnay from some of the top vineyard sites in the region, working with many of the best Premier and Grand Cru vineyards.