Daniel-Etienne Defaix Chablis Vieilles Vignes 2023

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Daniel-Etienne Defaix Chablis Vieilles Vignes 2023This cuve is sourced from vines the age of which is between 45 and 70 years. A wine of exceptional concentration for a village level appellation, this wine is always a true expression of the kimmeridgian soils that make Chablis so distinctive. Aged for thirty months before release, Defaixs old vines Chablis is richly dense with a classic pierre a fusil bouquet and long mineral infused finish.

“La Coudée d’Or” combines a panoply of better- and lesser-known white Rhône varieties such as Clairette

leaving the wine with about 90 grams of residual sugar and an alcohol level of 8

with the two cépages harvested and vinified separately before assemblage

From Chardonnay vines in the Grand Cru village of Cramant

this bottling offers a dazzling array of spices atop dense but elegant fruit

It’s a crystalline and stylish wine very much in line with his Chassagne-Montrachet crus

Its soils of clayey marl

and 15% of the little-seen Vuillermin—the father of Fumin

and very long on the palate

At that point

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Anita perfectly checks that richness