2018 Chablis Blanchots
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Another standout is the 2018 Chablis Grand Cru Blanchot, the most demonstrative of Raveneau's grand cru bottlings out of the gates this year. Offering up notions of citrus oil, pastry cream, crisp apricot and blanched almonds, it's medium to full-bodied, satiny and enveloping, with fine concentration and mid-palate amplitude, concluding with chalky grip.
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James Suckling
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The 2018 Chablis Blanchot Grand Cru is a wine of tremendous aromatic lift, perfume and energy. Bright citrus peel, white flowers, crushed rocks and intensely saline notes inform this bright, tightly wound Chablis. The 2018 is going to need a bit of time in the cellar to fully come together. It is a classically austere, forbidding young Chablis in a style that is unusual for the year, and I mean that in a positive sense.
Plenty of flinty and chalky aromas here with some exotic fruit, in the green-mango, banana and apricot zone. Very pretty nose. The palate has a super smooth, elegantly wrapped barrel of nectarines and lightly toasted almonds. Very sleek, long and succulent. Drink on release or hold.