2017 Patrick Piuze Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru
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The 2017 Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru is such a pretty and captivating wine. White flowers, lemon confit, mint, crushed rocks and chamomile open up effortlessly. A wine of understatement and total class, Patrick Piuze's Clos is such a joy to taste today. Crushed rocks, mint, orchard fruit and white pepper lead into the nuanced, inviting finish. I very much like the energy here.
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The 2017 Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru has a very well defined bouquet with scents of citrus peel, albumen, almond and light granitic scents that become more pronounced with aeration. The palate is very well balanced with crisp acidity, fine tension, quite sharp and saline towards the finish that urges you back for another sip. This has great potential.
The 2017 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos was reserved and reductive when I tasted it—the least extroverted of all the wines in Piuze's cellar, as is often the case with Les Clos. Notes of lemon oil, crisp peach and iodine mingling with smoky, leesy nuances introduce a full-bodied, deep and promising wine that is less monolithic than the Valmur but no less powerful. It's really too early to get a clear read on this, but its potential, at least, is clear.