Chablis Grand Cru Vaudesir
2019
$128.76*
Out of stock
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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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.
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.
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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