2006 Chablis Les Lys
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The 2006 Chablis 1er Cru Les Lys is showing beautifully, offering up inviting aromas of pear, honeycomb, mandarin oil, warm bread and oyster shell. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and incisive, with an enveloping core of fruit, racy acids and a long, saline finish, it's fleshy but controlled, with more texture than the Côte de Léchet and more structure than the Vaillons.
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Jancis Robinson MW
William Kelley, Wine Advocate
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Green liquid jelly (of the edible kind) somehow on the nose, with a hint of the wet-wool aroma that characterises decent Chablis with some age. Precise acidity complements quite a charge of fruit. But it's all quite tightly wound. This is a fairly robust, emphatic Chablis with considerable extract that I'd be tempted to decant. It's impressively persistent, which bodes well. (My guess at when this started to drink well is just that: a wild guess.) For a 14-year-old wine, this is GV . (JR)