2015 Chablis Valmur
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From a sunny year, the 2015 Chablis Grand Cru Valmur is drinking with considerable generosity despite its relative youth, offering aromas of beeswax, almond paste and orange peel, underpinned by a deft reductive signature. Medium- to full-bodied, muscular and layered, the palate is built around a rich core of fruit supported by chalky structuring extract, racy acidity and underlying tension, concluding with a long, resonant finish. It is aging nicely.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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(vinified entirely in oak): Very pale yellow-green. Pungent scents of lime, flint and white pepper, plus hints of spicy oak, baked bread and butter that suggest a rounder style of wine than the Vaudésir. Indeed, this Valmur is large-scaled, broad, silky and full, with just enough acidity to maintain its shape. Still hiding more than it's showing, though, and in need of aging in spite of its early sucrosité and lack of rough edges. Finishes long, with menthol and spice notes.
(vinified entirely in barriques and 350-liter casks, then assembled early and racked into cuve in January): Bright, pale yellow. Pure aromas of orange zest, peach and spices. More taut and less round than the Vaudésir but still with an enticing sweetness to its sharply chiseled stone fruit and spice flavors. This powerful, energetic wine mounts impressively on the sappy, silky, palate-saturating finish. From a crop level of just 25 hectoliters per hectare and it shows. Jul 2016, www.vinous.com
A ripe and attractively fresh nose combines notes of pear, white peach, sea shell, iodine and wood nuances. There is exceptional richness to the almost viscous and powerful broad-shouldered flavors that coat the palate with dry extract that also serves to buffer the relatively firm acid spine on the austere and serious finale that, somewhat curiously, simultaneously exhibits a touch of sweetness. Oct 2016, www.burghound.com, Drink: 2022+
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.