2021 - Chablis Grand Cru Vaudésir Jean-Paul Droin - 6x75cl
- Colour White
- Producer Domaine Jean-Paul Droin
- Drinking 2025 - 2036
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available Now
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Goedhuis, December 2022
Benoît has two seperate plots of vines within this fine Grand Cru. On the nose there is a mix of spice and honey. The opening salvo is all about charm, with easy flowing yellow fruit flavours and then, as Benoît says, it sparkles with its mineral tension and energy. Bright and tremendous purity.
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Burghound, October 2022, Score: 91-94
Here too moderate wood sets off the overtly spicy and ripe aromas of white and yellow peach, iodine and hints of seashore. The sleek, delicious and intense flavors are just a bit more refined, indeed they are almost delicate, while still delivering excellent length on the citrus-tinged finish where a bit of wood slowly emerges. Drink 2028+
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Jasper Morris MW, December 2022, Score: 92-94
Clean classic white fruit with concentration and some elegance. Steely and with backbone, then a beautiful finish with complexity, still based around the white fruit. Drink from 2027-2034. Tasted: June 2022
Producer
Domaine Jean-Paul Droin
It is quite something to be the 14th generation of your family making wines in the same town since 1620. Unsurprisingly over this 400-year period, the Droins have built up a sizeable 26-hectare estate and an enviable portfolio of appellations from both Grands and Premiers Crus within the Chablis region. Benoît joined his father at the estate in 1999 at the age of 24, and for the last decade has assumed total control. During...Read more
It is quite something to be the 14th generation of your family making wines in the same town since 1620. Unsurprisingly over this 400-year period, the Droins have built up a sizeable 26-hectare estate and an enviable portfolio of appellations from both Grands and Premiers Crus within the Chablis region. Benoît joined his father at the estate in 1999 at the age of 24, and for the last decade has assumed total control. During this period, he has continued the family’s respect for their fine terroir and soil but has quietly adjusted the winemaking style. The use of oak is less prevalent today than in his father Jean-Paul’s time, resulting in a greater terroir identity to the domaine’s wines and a mineral drive and edge. At the risk of testing his natural modesty, Benoît is very firmly positioning himself and the estate as one of Chablis’s greats. Regularly achieving top spot in blind tastings, in our view his brilliance is unsurpassed today.Read less
