Excellent 2011’s chez Vincent Dauvissat. No premox here. We tasted a Petit Chablis 1996, Sechet 2000 and Forest 1990. All there were insolently young. To think that the Petit Chablis had been open for 4 days and Sechet for 5 days !
Nicolas Groffier’s 2012’s (barrel samples, pre-malo) and his Gevrey Village 2011 were to die for.
There was an orgy of wines chez Anne Gros. It was open house for her trade clients.
There were 50 - 100 bottles open : her Minervois wines, her husband’s wines (Tollot Beaut), many wines made with/by her father dating back to 1993, all her 2011’s. As there were too of them, I just went for all of the Echezeaux and Richebourg. And after all that, Elodie asked whether we wanted to taste the 2012’s !
Some very good 2011’s chez Faiveley. The Bienvenues-Batard 2011 ranks among the best grand crus I’ve tasted.
Not sure why you would expect to find premox in a 2011 Chablis, or be able to predict whether or not it might occur with time. But I hope you are right!
I was referring to the older Chablis, which I tasted this time and on other occasions.
Dauvissat doesn’t seem to have a problem with premox. His wines seem to be able to age forever…
Thanks for the report. I have not had the 11 Dauvissat GCs yet but 1er crus are major disappointment for me, too much green/pyrazine note also lacking concentration. We earnk the 93 AG Richeboug which was monumental.
All of the Dauvissats I’ve drunk (1983, 1989, 1990, 1996, numerous 2001’s / 2003’s / 2004’s) were tasted at the Domaine or bought from the Domaine and transported back home in good conditions.
I wonder if that has a played a part in my not encountering any pre-moxed wine.
On the other hand, you guys seem to have drunk more Dauvissats than me. Maybe my experience is too limited.
It’s just that when I drink his older wines, they seem so young and fresh that it’s difficult to imagine them being hit by premox.
Sorry to hear you didn’t like the 1er crus. I liked them. I found them to rather “open” and enjoyable for such young Chablis.
I admit that the 2010’s (tasted last year) were superior.
If you guys visit, there’s a good chance that you’ll be tasting with his daughter Etiennette. A very motivated and knowledgeable person.
She and her brother have become very involved in the domaine. They’ve bought a bit of Montée de Tonnerre but the vineyard is in bad shape. So no MdT under the Dauvissat name for a while.