Chablis Valmur Grand Cru Domaine William Fèvre 2011

Wineadvocate

The 2011 Chablis Valmur shows marvelous intensity, focus and verve. This is a decidedly vibrant Chablis endowed with notable purity and sheer energy, although today some of that may be the result of a racking one week before this tasting. Valmur is usually a much more open wine, so it will be interesting to see how things shape up over the coming year. Anticipated maturity: 2014+.

Vinous

Pale, bright, green-tinged yellow. Very subtle scents of pear, lemon, lime, menthol, crushed stone and spices. Intensely flavored and serious, with excellent marne energy to the white peach, lemon oil and stone flavors. Supple yet quite penetrating for 2011, finishing citrussy and long but not at all hard. Very Chablis, in a rather modern style. Seguier noted that these very old virused vines produced only 35 hectoliters per hectare in 2012. They reach 45 only in copious years like 2007 and 2004, he added.