2008 William Fèvre Chablis Champs Royaux- France, Burgundy, Chablis (7/3/2010)
This wine made a great pairing with assorted seafood at one of my partner’s Country Club Food Fest and Comedy night. I drank this with crab claws, shrimp, clams, red and white tuna sashimi, and spicy tuna rolls. The steely minearlity and white fruit was a perfect match for the food. This wine is light to moderate in color with a palate of white fruit and steely minerality and some bracing acidity with lemon citrus overtones. It’s grown on top of limestone, right? I do not know if this gets time in oak, but my guess would be no. (89 pts.)
At $17 locally, the 07 was my house white this year. None of my non-geek friends believed it was chardonnay. Great to use in cooking, too. If the 08 is as good or even nearly as good, I’ll be happy.
Yhanks for reminding me. That was the other reason I brought it. I asked my partner’s wife last week what wines I should bring and she said she liked fresh summer whites other than chardonnay, which she thought was too strong so she didn’t like it. I brought the Chablis with the expectation that it was more to her liking. I was right.
This is especially a good buy relative to the Grand Crus which are now quite expensive. The 08’ is great too. Fevre’s 1er Crus use to sell for as low as $25 btl and the Grands for low as $35/blt for the 02s but skyrocketed with the 04’s onward. I only buy this blt now. I really like the MTD but its $45+ now.
[quote="Steven Lawrence]. . . This is a great value wine, hard to imagine a better $20 white for my tastes.[/quote]I’m not sure what we paid for this. We got a half case at Posner’s annual tasting. I think it was a few dollars less than $20. It’s an excellent wine to drink now, no need to worry about premox, and a reasonable level of flavor complexity. The only thing I missed was the roasted cashews that I have found in the higher level Fevre Chablis, which may simply come out with more age.