2024 Chablis Blanchots
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Tasting notes
There’s a chalky, leesy intensity to the nose of the Blanchot from Samuel Billaud in 2024. It is a wine of immense weight and power – one that will need time to reveal itself fully. There’s a sweetness to the core of fruit on the palate, but what really shines here is a mineral purity that reverberates through the wine and into a long, mouth-wateringly fresh finish. A fantastic wine of flawless balance and concentration, one that deserves time in the cellar.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jamie Goode, Wine Anorak
More reviews and scores
100% in 2-year-old barrels, 456 litres and 500 litres. Vat sample. Smells ripe and has a hint of apricot and incipient honey. A touch of oak but more in creaminess than spice and a light note of vanilla. There’s also a herbal freshness here – pretty complex for such a young wine. Concentrated and long, with excellent balance between ripeness of fruit and acidity. Terrific length.
Highly aromatic. Lovely spice-laden citrus fruit nose with notes of grapefruit and orange peel. The palate is concentrated, refined and pure. Stony and mineral with lovely tension. Fine and chiselled showing good texture and purity.
All made in Chassin barrels for one year. Very pale in colour, notably oaky nose. I have suggested he goes to wine globe for this wine. Even in the mouth the wood marks this too much. The fruit will pull through but this isn’t classic Samuel.
About the producer
Samuel Billaud started making wine under his own name in 2009, but he is one of the most experienced producers in Chablis, having made wine in the region since 1985.