CHABLIS 2018
CHABLIS 2018
Grape variety
Tasting notes
Nose: Intense and elegant bouquet of white fruits : peach, pear with pink grapefruit and almond notes.
Palate: A fresh, balanced and creamy wine in the mouth with aromas of cherry blossom and zest of citrus fruits. A long, iodized and persistent finish.
Wine and food pairing
Ideal with white meat dishes, sushi and sashimi, chicken in a cream sauce, shellfish and crayfish.
Serving temperature
Ageing potential
History
Vinification and maturing
The malolactic fermentation began rapidely after the alcoholic fermentation and was complete in January. The wine is then aged on the lees for 5 to 7 months.
Vintage : 2018
It is quite hardly to sum up the vintage 2018 in a few words! Winter, grey and humid was followed by a capricious spring, subject to frosts and alternating times of sunshine and storms on an almost daily basis from May to the mid-June, making this period particularly stressful for our people in the vineyards.
Then came an incredible time of nice weather, hot, very hot and even heatwave periods until the end of… October!
Another particular vintage which looks like no other! As rainfalls episodes were particularly localized, we had to deal with very different degree of ripeness from a plot to another, depending of the water volume received by each vineyard.
In 2018, as in other French wine region, quality and quantity were very satisfactory on our whole vineyard and were are very pleased with the quality of the vinified juices currently ageing in 228 L. Burgundian barrels in our cellars.
Harvest took place on our vineyards between the end of August (27th) and the 18th of September under a hot and persistent autumn sun. Even if the weather was very nice, the harvest period was very long and demanding in the vineyards as well as in the winery, due to the particularly different stages of ripeness. This is, without doubt, what one will retain from this harvest: so different ripeness degrees and so very different harvesting time from a village to another and even from a parcel to another in the same vineyard!
White wines were mostly harvested first in order to keep a nice acidity on this particularly solar vintage.