2024 Domaine Laurent Tribut Chablis 1er Cru "Beauroy"

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If you've ever stood in a wine shop wishing you could afford Dauvissat, this is the domaine you were wishing for. Laurent Tribut came to Chablis to work for René Dauvissat and ended up marrying his daughter Marie-Clotilde, which made Vincent Dauvissat his brother-in-law and gave the young couple a handful of beautifully sited parcels to start a domaine of their own. For his first years he made his wines in the Dauvissat cellar itself, and when he moved to his own cellar in the hamlet of Poinchy in 1994 he brought the family habits with him: hand harvesting, minimal spraying, fermentation in tank and then a long sleep in old 228-liter barrels, some of them pushing 50 years, with new wood bought only when an old cask finally gives up. The wines are taut, chalky and saline, with just a touch more flesh and friendliness than Vincent's, but age with the same grace. Laurent retired in 2019 and his children Solange, Adeline and Gabriel now run the estate, with Solange in charge of the winemaking. These are tiny-production wines that reward a little patience and taste like they're twice the price. We take every bottle we can get (which is not much)!