2017 Domaine Raveneau Chablis Grand Cru "Blanchot"

The 2017 Chablis Blanchot Grand Cru is a dense, powerful wine that reflects the natural concentration of yields that were just 13 hectoliters per hectare as opposed to the more typical 50 or so. Lemon confit, white flower and orchard fruit notes are packed into an explosive Chablis that will only truly blossom with quite a bit of time in the cellar. The 2017 is so deep, so vivid and so striking. I can't imagine opening a bottle before its tenth birthday. (AG)

As I mentioned in the introduction, the Blanchots was not particularly hard hit by frost in 2017 and the wine has turned out to be an absolute classical interpretation of this beautiful terroir in this vintage. The pure, refined and nascently complex nose jumps from the glass in a blend of apple, lemon, tangerine, chalky minerality, beeswax, dried flowers and a topnote of citrus zest. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and nicely solid at the core, with beautiful transparency and grip, bright, zesty acids, great focus and bounce and impressive mineral drive on the very long and intensely flavored finish. Great juice. (Drink between 2024-2065)