2007 J-M Brocard Chablis VV

$38 in a restaurant? Very good price. I need to look for this, your writeup was similar to Gilman's (don't think he'd mind a sngle quote): "the sixty-eight year-old vines use for this bottling are in the transition phase to biodynamique, and it will be very interesting to see this wine when the change is complete in its viticulture. The 2007 is a lovely wine in the making, and was much more on form at the time of my visit than the above. The bouquet is deep and classy, as it offers up a superb mélange of grapefruit, lemon, plenty of wet stone minerality, lemongrass, lime oil and a touch of anise. On the palate the wine is fullish, deep and shows great focus and cut, with fine depth at the core and excellent length and grip on the racy and very minerally finish. A very, very classy old vine bottling. 91"

pretty good for Chablis AC!

I recently had a bottle of the same and was quite surprised to see the label change. I really liked this and the store purchase was $22.50 so $38 is indeed a good buy. I found this to be a good QPR. The acidity made for good food friendliness.

I'm not nearly as fluent in wine writing as John Gilman and I'm not even sure where to find his reviews but it is a pretty good review for a pretty good glass of wine! I did taste it initially at the winery last spring. The restaurant we were at usually only charges me retail prices as their usual charge is only $10 over retail and I bring them a lot of business and I bring them little wine gifts from time to time.

Actually sometimes I wish John would trim it a bit. It's the only newsletter I still subscribe to