1. Home
  2. General Wine Forum
  3. Help! chablis producers recommendations please.

Help! chablis producers recommendations please.

I haven't been purchasing chablis since the 96-97 vintages (where being very impressed, I was rather greedy). Now these wines are drinking extremely well and disappearing from my cellar at an alarming rate. Re-stocking is required, but I'm out of touch on the producers I should be buying, so from the 2004 vintage which of these (from local distributor with stock) should I be looking at? Dom Rene & Vincent Dauvissat Dom Francois Raveneau Dom Billaud-Simon Dom Sainte Marie Jean-Marc Brocard Dom William Fevre Dom Moreau-Naudet Dom Loius Michel Dom Pinson

Wanted: no beaver food, citrus/lemon/lime, apple, white fruit, seashell/iodine good acidity stone/quartz NOT wanted: lumber, flabby, pineapple (strong)grapefruit, off-dry.

Recommendations requested. Any other producers I should be scouting?

TIA, greybeard

Reply to
greybeard
Loading thread data ...

Well, to be simplistic, I'd rank the ones I know in this order as far as oakiness (least to most):

Of course, that's a little simplistic, and while I've never had a Raveneau that didn't show a bit of oak, I've never had one that seemed over-oaked. And I think Raveneau & Dauvissat definitely deserve their place at the top of the Chablis reputation mountain (whether to the extent that they're priced over the others is another matter).

Oak and Chablis is complicated, as most probably don't oak their Chablis AC, some oak their 1ers, and most probably age their GCs in oak. I'm pretty sure that Louis Michel keeps even their GCs in stainless, but that's rare. If it were me, I'd buy Brocard AC as a value early drinker, and Louis Michel 1ers (Montmains and Montee de Tonnerres) as the keepers. That's based on past vintages, I haven't had the 2004s yet. If price is no object then for sure try the Raveneau and R&V Dauvissat.

These are all good producers (I wouldn't neccessarily have said that about Brocard or Fevre a few vintages ago).

Reply to
DaleW

"DaleW" wrote in news:1146417734.383397.148870 @e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com:

I really only have experience with 2 of these the Michel and the Fevre (and neither for 2004 but have had a Verget in stelvin from that vintage!), I had thought not to chime in on such small sampling but can attest to Dale's taste on this one.

Reply to
Joseph Coulter

The NYTimes had a great article by Frank Prial a couple weeks ago on Chablis including his recommendations from different price ranges. He covered the 2005's, which are supposed to be sensational across the board. If you search their site, you may be able to locate it.

Reply to
beerwithnuts

DrinksForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.