Stop press: Chablis: special focus report now available (part of a massive PDF e-magazine or download from Amazon).
As a gentle warm-up to more in-depth reflections and my pick of wines and wineries from a recent tour in and around Chablis land (including a day's cellar hopping
on foot, as is easy to do in Chablis town), we'll whet our appetite for the
region's distinctive, possibly unique even, take on the Chardonnay grape by featuring all 22 medal-winners from this year's Chablis Wine Awards, which we sampled at a tutored tasted on 4th March. So, for what it's
worth (as the fanfare has already been heralded), this is what I thought of them, mostly 2011 vintage wines plus a trio of Grands Crus from the excellent 2010. More info @ chablis.fr. And many more words on the Chablis area (including hotel and restaurant tips), vineyards, vintages and some of the podium-topping producers cited below (Fèvre, Moreau, Chablisienne, Geoffroy, Droin, Long-Depaquit, Bordet...) have now been cunningly packaged into another two enticing instalments: Part 2 and Part 3...
GET THE FULL REPORT BY SUBSCRIBING NOW TO READ THE REST OF IT!
GET THE FULL REPORT BY SUBSCRIBING NOW TO READ THE REST OF IT!
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| From chablisgrandcru.com |
Hectares more on Chablis HERE (goes to archive Burgundy page inc. Grand Cru tasting and links to the rest of my "Chablis on foot" series).
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