Samuel Billaud, Chablis Clos Vintage:2023 dark cherry and prominent floral

dark cherry and prominent floral elements

passion fruit and white peach

with a good core of fruit

(raised in new French oak casks of varying size for two years) Inky ruby

There are reductive

Samuel Billaud, Chablis Clos Vintage:2023 dark cherry and prominent floral(from a small . 09 ha parcel). Once again moderate wood frames the decidedly cooler nose of airy Granny Smith apple, citrus, mineral reduction and oyster shell scents. Much like the Vaudsir, the mouthfeel of the larger bodied and more powerful flavors is highly attractive if not as delicate, all wrapped in an overtly stony, chiseled, youthfully austere and precise finale. This is not particularly dense but it remains solidly powerful in a sort of