Chablis Grand Cru Vaudesir 2019

JEAN-MARC BROCARD

Chablis Grand Cru Vaudesir
2019

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Country
France
Regulated designation
Appellation origine controlée (AOC)
Region
Burgundy
Subregion
Yonne
Appellation
Chablis
Classification
Grand cru
Varietal(s)
Chardonnay 100 %
Colour
White
Sugar
Dry
Producer's website
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About this winery

Jean-Marc Brocard's origins lie in the Côte d'Or, a farmer's son from the village of Chaudenay-le-Château, not even the son of the vigneron. Following his father’s advice Jean-Marc studied Engineering leaving behind agricultural life. It was an accident of marriage that brought him to wine when he married Claudine (his childhood sweetheart), a vigneron's daughter from the village of St-Bris-le-Vineux in the valley of Yonne. Starting with single a hectare of vines from his father-in-law in...

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Product notes

Out of all the Chablis Grands Crus, the Vaudésir is the most delicate. It will charm you with its lively yet elegant character. The slopes of the Vaudésir valley are steep and express a particularly fine minerality.

Tasting notes

Fresh, elegant aromas of flowers and fruit. On the palate, it is distinguished from other Grands Crus by its own particular subtlety: a delicious blend of softness and liveliness. Light yet rounded, it shows great charm from a very early age.

Press reviews

Burghound.com

- 93 points -

August 2016 (Vintage 2014)

This is also distinctly woody and while the oak doesn't dominate the ripe and mildly exotic white and yellow orchard fruit nose, it can't be described as subtle. Otherwise there is a lovely sense of purity to the intense, sleek and generous yet precise medium-bodied flavors that possess a succulent mouth feel, all wrapped in an impressively complex and lingering finish. Like the Bougros my rating assumes that the wood will ultimately be successfully integrated. 

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Vinous

- 93 points -

September 2022 (Vintage 2020)

The 2020 Chablis Vaudésir Grand Cru was showing just a little reduction on the nose, opening with a touch of wild mint infusing the citrus fruit, hints of orange blossom and wet pavement. The palate is balanced, quite tensile, fresh and has a nice acidity with good weight in the sapid finish. Give this another 12-18 months in bottle as it needs to open up.

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Burghound.com

- 92 points -

December 2020 (Vintage 2019)

A markedly ripe and noticeably exotic nose that offers moderate Chablis character gives way to dense, muscular and serious flavors that still manage to be more refined than those of the Bougros, while delivering sneaky good length. This is a big wine in the context of what is typical for Vaudésir, yet it avoids being top heavy or rustic

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