I love a good Chablis but over recent years its become silly expensive. What would people suggest as best US alternative, so far ive found
Liquid farm white hill, excellent and good price
Kosta one sixteen, good but expensive
Boekenoogen stainless chard, the 2008/9 were awesome but there wines have fallen in quality the last few years
Ive heard rhys is worth trying but never have
I was going to say Rhys and LF.
Add Ceritas to your list.
Clos Pepe “Hommage to Chablis”
Also, try Forman
There is tons of high quality inexpensive Challis. Dozens of very nice wines under 25 bucks.
Saying US Chablis is like saying French Vidalia Onions
Jim is right–plenty of real Chablis for real cheap money
Lean and unoaked Chard is not the same thing as Chablis
(my not so humble opinion)
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While I love Rhys, Copain, Ceritas and other cooler climate California Chardonnays, I’d never mistake one for Chablis. I think Liquid Farm White Hill comes the closest to Chablis features I love.
Sometimes even Chablis miss that typicity, especially in lusher vintages.
I have a lot of Chablis in my cellar (Dauvissat, a little Raveneau, a bunch of Gilbert Picq - everyone should try Picq -, and a spattering of Fevre and Louis Michel), but have had to make room for the aforementioned California Chards. Not the same thing, but beauties in their own right.
What he said, right down to the four California producers mentioned and the disinclination to equate them with Chablis.
I see deals on Chablis all the time. Not sure what data is going into the notion it is silly expensive. I see Chablis as a less expensive higher quality alternative to New World Chard.
Montelena makes a very crisp chardonnay.
I am not aware of anything in the us that has any sort of resembalance to chablis.
Curious if others claim otherwise…
Maybe Arnot-Roberts, but nothing really is like Chablis.
Bernard Defaix’s Cote de Lechet is another reasonably priced Chablis - usually around $20+, and while it never strikes me as unduly complex, like Picq, it seems to always display that Chablis typicity. Like one poster already suggested, to my way of thinking Chablis is the place to look for crisply-made Chardonnay at a reasonable price. Unless you only insist on drinking Raveneau, I’m not sure where the notion arises that it is an expensive white?
I just had an Inman Chardonnay that was in a Chablis style. Very nice.
rhys is neither inexpensive nor reminiscent of chablis
Surprising that the french lawyers have not been visiting US producers who abuse the name.
Its weird, I remember drinking a 1983 Rene Dauvissuet Grand Clos Les Clos Chablis that blew me away, now I find most Chablis to be too thin. Who makes a really sharp minerally acidic but full bodied chard ?
If you want a sharply acid, mineral white with body, there’s a lot to choose from worldwide. No need to limit the search to California. For instance, I recently had a gorgeous dry Furmint from Hungary that fits that descriptor nicely!