White Wine: 2013 | Domaine Vincent Dauvissat | Chablis Montee de Tonnerre

Super chalky and waxy with a wealth of very fine peppery notes as well as praline and some light ready aromas.

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Producer: Domaine Vincent Dauvissat

Ratings: WA | 94 D | 90-92

Vintage: 2013

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Chardonnay

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Super chalky and waxy with a wealth of very fine peppery notes as well as praline and some light ready aromas. The palate has a super complete and seamless mouthfeel. Long, fresh, smooth and complete. Pulpy citrus, some lemons and late toasty flavors here.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Super chalky and waxy with a wealth of very fine peppery notes as well as praline and some light ready aromas. The palate has a super complete and seamless mouthfeel. Long, fresh, smooth and complete. Pulpy citrus, some lemons and late toasty flavors here.

• Decanter: There are just two barrels of the 2013 Chablis Monte de Tonnerre, a new wine in the range made from a parcel Vincent Dauvissat is renting. Floral, lifted notes meld into honey, chamomile, dried pear, hazelnut and almond notes. The 2013 is quite pretty. In this inaugural vintage, the Monte de Tonnerre expresses more of the ripeness of the year than the minerality of the site.

Producer Information

Vincent Dauvissat is one of the most prestigious producers from the Chablis region of northern Burgundy. It is family-owned and -operated and has been selling wine under the family name since 1931. In 1976 Vincent began helping his father Ren Dauvissat and he has since taken over. The wines can be bottled as Vincent Dauvissat or Domaine Dauvissat-Camus the latter denoting wider family holdings farmed and made by Dauvissat. Chablis in general is known for its steely, crisp wines made from Chardonnay. The soil of the best sites is Kimmeridgian, a mineral-rich clay with significant lime content formed by a high density of marine fossils. Vincent Dauvissat has sections in two Grand Cru vineyards: Les Clos and Les Preuses. Additionally, Dauvissat boasts four premier cru sites: Schet, Vaillons, Montmains, and the acclaimed La Fort (labeled by Dauvissat as “La Forest”), the quality of which can approach that of the grand crus in good vintages. Dauvissat also produces a Villages Chablis and a Petit Chablis. However, the small size of Dauvissat’s basic Chablis holding (on the opposite side of the valley to the La Fort vineyard) and its correspondingly small production means it can be the hardest of the wines to find. The fruit is naturally farmed and hand-harvested. No destemming is done (the wines are all whole bunch pressed) and malolactic fermentation occurs spontaneously. Winter temperatures cause the tartrates to precipitate out of the wine and beyond this, the wines are unfined. Unconventionally for Chablis, Dauvissat forgoes btonnage (regular lees stirring). Vincent Dauvissat is also one of the few Chablis producers to use oak barrels during levage (the wines’ maturation in cellar), though the barrels used are 6-8 years old. The belief is that the oak is essential in developing the body and structure of the wine, but old barrels are used so that the flavor characteristics are unaffected.