Vincent Dauvissat La Foret Chablis Premier Cru 2018 Best Chablis

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Vincent Dauvissat La Foret is top-level Premier Cru. The site suits their winemaking. La Foret is leaner but complex Chablis for long-term cellaring.

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Vincent Dauvissat Chablis was unknown to me until I visited the region in 2008. The wines are every bit as good as Raveneau but hard to find. The range is all remarkable, and I would encourage you to buy as much Vincent Dauvissat as you can find.

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Vincent Dauvissat La Foret is their top-level Premier Cru. The site suits the Vincent Dauvissat winemaking style. Foret is the middle site in the Montains Premier Cru. It could actually be labelled Montains if they chose. La Foret, it sits between Butteaux and Montmains proper on the hill. The Southeast aspect, shallow soils and higher clay content make for a cool site. The wines get the morning sun but no the heat of the afternoon sun. So they are leaner wines, but complex.

They keep it pretty simple at Vincent Dauvissat; all wines are farmed with organic and biodynamic practices. Grapes are hand-harvested and not de-stemmed. Fermentation in oak and stainless steel with aging in old (sometimes very old) oak for all wines. The wines of Vincent Dauvissat live for a very long time and really need 10-15 years before drinking. If you want to drink Chablis young, you’d be better looking at many other producers (Billaud-Simon, Samuel Billaud, for example).

Vincent Dauvissat La Foret Chablis Premier Cru 2018

Antonio Galloni, vinous.com.
93-95 points
The 2018 Chablis La Forest 1er Cru is a big step up in all dimensions from the preceding 1ers in the cellar. Powerful, rich and also intensely mineral, the Forest is so vivid and so inviting. All the signatures of this site as interpreted by Vincent Dauvissat are ampled up in large-scaled Chablis endowed with tremendous personality and class. In a word: superb.

Burgundy

The classic part of Burgundy known as the Cote D’Or (the slope of gold) is essentially one vineyard that is 60km long and maybe 5km at its widest. From this limestone ridge, some of the most complex, long-lived and aromatic wines produced from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The Cistercian monks who owned the land codified the entire region, and so each small plot has a name.

Burgundy Wine Map

Chablis 

The Kimmeridgian soils that make Chablis taste like Chablis are evident in these wines. They have more definition of the region and more structure than a Petit Chablis. But without the fruit weight and intensity of the better sites. Great wines for drinking young or youngish.

chablis-wine-region-map

Chardonnay

The grape that you can plant anywhere, in any climate and do anything to and it will still taste like an OK wine. When people hit the sweet spot of site, climate, cropping and winemaking, Chardonnay becomes a magical wine that will age gracefully but charm you at any age. Chardonnays can range from cool-climate lean and citrusy to warmer climate tropical and overt. Oak and lees can add flavouring as can malolactic fermentation.

French Wine

The land that some many New World (not European) wine producers look to emulate. To generalise about French wine, I would say it is savoury, lighter-bodied wines. They are the definition of elegant, complex. There are many styles, though. And there is a French wine for every palate. They lead the world in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in Burgundy. Sparkling Wine in Champagne. Cabernet and Merlot in Bordeaux. Syrah(Shiraz) and Grenache in the Rhone Valley. Riesling, Gewurztraminer, and Pinot Gris in Alsace. Sauvignon Blanc, and Chenin Blanc in the Loire Valley. Gamay in Beaujolais.

French Wine Regions 2

Wine

Wine is the result you get from fermented grape juice. There is proof of wine production dating back 8000 years ago. Fashions, innovations and many other factors have influenced the way wine has evolved over the years.

The wine grape is impressive. It contains everything you need to make grape wine except for the yeast, which lives on the outside of the skins.

Human inputs can influence the final product, including the viticulture (growing) choices. And the winemaker can shape the wine to a point too.

The best wines of the world often refer to terroir. Terroir is a French term that refers to all the climatic, geological and topographical influences on a specific piece of land. And it is true that neighbouring vineyards, grown identically, can taste noticeably different.

White Wine

It is interesting to know that you can make white wine from almost any grape. The colour comes from the skins, and if there is no contact, there is no colour. White wines tend to be delicate, perfumed, higher in acid and lower in alcohol. It seems for this and many other reasons, it is hard to make an incredibly impressive white wine. But those that have mastered the art are indeed some of the best winemakers in the world.

It is a falsehood to think that white wine does not age as well as red wine. But it is correct that white wine, as a rule, doesn’t age for as long.

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