2015 Chablis Vaillons
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Light-medium yellow. Reticent but pure aromas of white peach, apple, pear, citrus fruits and earth are lifted by a mineral quality and a touch of orange blossom. Lovely sweet peach and mandarin orange flavors display nice concentration. Winemaker Guillaume Gicqueau-Michel thinks this should be more expressive today, but this is the only premier cru bottled with Diam corks. Gicqueau-Michel told me he's moving back to natural cork, as he finds that the wines sealed with Diams are muted for too long. Lovely fruit here.
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Richard Hemming MW, jancisrobinson.com
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Somewhat closed on the nose, but there is pleasant apple and blossom character on the palate. Light body, some bitterness to finish. (RH)
(limited hail damage here): Pure, more complex nose combines yellow fruits and smoky, flinty minerality. Round, ripe and sweet, showing a slightly exotic quality but also good concentration and fine-grained texture to its deep yellow fruit flavors. The finished alcohol here is 12.9% and, at a modest 1.0 gram per liter, this is the highest among the 2015s.