Classification | Cru Classe |
Type | White |
Brand | Domaine Vincent Dauvissat |
Vintage | 2020 |
Country | France |
Region | Burgundy, Chablis |
Grape | Chardonnay |
Volume | 0,75 |
Condition | Perfect |
Label | Perfect |
Stock | 0 |
Condition | Perfect |
Label | Perfect |
A perfumed nose offers up notes of green apple, lemon zest, algae and oyster shell. The sleek, delineated and powerful large-scaled flavors are shaped by a firm citrus-tinged acid spine on the exuberantly spicy, strikingly long and bone-dry finish. This youthfully austere effort is also going to require extended patience before arriving at its apogee.
I generally have a slight preference for Dauvissat's Les Preuses, a preference I suspect Vincent Dauvissat shares, but the 2020 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos, at least at this early stage, gets my nod as the king of the cellar—and the wine of the vintage. Wafting from the glass with aromas of citrus oil, fresh bread, oyster shell, white flowers and wet stones, it's full-bodied, layered and textural, with huge concentration, racy acids and a long, resonant finish.