24/03/2026
New from Bill Nanson from Burgundy Report !
Adrien on 2025:
“It went rather well – like everyone we were expecting a larger harvest but looking at the the wines, I think it’s a great vintage. The wines in tank and barrel are so impressive right now – and the work was very easy in the cuverie. Only the rain could have arrived with better timing. We harvested ripe and early but later harvesters lost a lot of volume.”
Adrien on 2024:
“We lost a bit more than a third, but with some 2023 VCI we were only 15% down. We have nice acidity and good freshness. The wines may not hand around for long though as we have such a demand… 40% of the domaine was hit by hail – but we had vines that were in good shape by the time we got to the harvest.”
The wines…
A superb vintage by Adrien. The wines have really taken on a new life under his eye for detail and much longer elevage.
Only the first two wine with natural cork…
2024 Petit Chablis
The bottling was just before the 2025 harvest.
Perfumed and mineral. Juicy, a little strict today – beautiful energy – love it – but keep it 1-2 years to calm !!
2024 Chablis
Bottled in the Autumn. Technical ‘amalgam cork’
Direct, more concentrated, silky with a slightly more visible citrus ripeness, lightly touched by floral perfume again. Wide, juicy, melting flavour – a small touch of fluidity too. Fading beautifully and a touch of finishing salinity. A tiny chalky texture in this finish. Ooh, what an excellent wine – and potentially ready before the PC !!
2024 Chablis 1er Vaillons
Same bottling time as the last. 15 months of elevage with vines in Lys, Sechets, Melinots and others – 6 parcels covering over 4 ha – nearly a quarter of the domaine. Standard cork.
Wow – almost electric width – what citrus energy – that’s great! Such scale, such delicious agrume energy. A little mandarin fruit here. Great finishing, faintly saline too. Bravo – benchmark!!
2024 Chablis 1er Montmains Vieilles-Vignes
55-65-year-old vines. Part concrete egg elevage.
Less width but a bit more power/impact to this nose. Cooler, more mineral – hyper clarity. Direct, such a linear finish, slowly widening as the tension of the flavour melts – but today only at the end – it will be excellent, but it’s too early to say more…
The following tasted from tank:
2024 Chablis 1er Les Lys
Direct, nobly reductive – what an impressive nose. Still some gas – but what a bundle of clarity and energy – super finishing intensity – this to bottle around April. It’s showing great !!
2024 Chablis Vieilles-Vignes
Also from tank. Tank for the first fermentation then 12 months in older barrels for the malo and the rest. Then again there was 7-8 months with the wine assembled in tank before bottling. In bottle for 10 days – 20 months elevage. First vintage for this
Hmm – the barrel spice is still present but a fine texture to ripe citrus too. Fuller, rounder, a small cushion to the texture. Large, depth of flavour – plenty of barrel references but only in the finish. This will be showing best around 2028/29+ Super wine…
2024 Chablis Vaudésirs
Nearly 1 ha of Vaudésirs here, but nearly 30% less yield. Part has large-format (600-l) barrels for both fermentation and elevage for 12 months then stainless to finish the elevage.
The fine nose just widens and widen- that’s impressive. Ready for the extra wide panorama of flavour – clean, pure, an accent of barrel here that wasn’t visible in the aromas. Love the scale of flavour in the mouth after the wine is gone – the flavour doesn’t want to go. Really persistent – that’s a super thing.
