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2016 Domaine Pinson Chablis Mont de Milieu

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November 12, 2023 - $40

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RATINGS

93James Suckling

Fresh and spicy aromas with a very composed array of bright elegant white peaches and nectarines. The palate has attractive taut acidity, holding freshness and length. Toasted hazelnuts and lime marmalade to close.

92Wine Spectator

Mineral overtones frame the core flavors of peach, melon and honey in this harmonious, succulent white. Stays focused from start to finish, revealing a refreshing citrus element.

92Burghound.com

A moderately exotic nose offers up notes of dried apricot and white peach along with good Chablis typicity. There is both excellent volume and mid-palate concentration to the mouth coating broad-shouldered flavors that exude evident minerality on the lemony, persistent and very dry but not really austere finale.

89-91Stephen Tanzer

Yellow plum, fresh apricot and very ripe peach on the nose. Thick and voluminous...showing both exotic fruit and dried-fruit notes... Finishes glyceral, thick and long, with slightly bitter-edged acidity and a late note of pineapple.

17.5Jancis Robinson

Honeyed nose over really seriously tense and exciting stuff. Excellent tension. Long.

REGION

France, Burgundy, Chablis, Mont de Milieu

Chablis is the northernmost region of Burgundy, located just 110 miles southeast of Paris. It is also one of the region’s most historic, and by some measures most under-rated, appellations. In the 19th century Chablis included 100,000 acres of vineyards and supplied Paris with much of its red and white wine. Today Chablis has just 7,000 acres of AOC vineyards, having lost many to the 19th century phylloxera scourge. Chablis is admired by white wine cognoscenti, however, for its Chardonnays, which are notably different from the Chardonnays produced further south. Chardonnay is the only grape grown for the Chablis appellation – there are no red wines. Chablis has seven Grand Cru vineyards and twenty-two Premier Crus. Given its northern location, harvests are not dependable in Chablis. But in good years the wines are generally described as “flinty,” meaning more acidic, steely, austere and mineral tasting than the fuller, fruitier Chardonnays of the Côte d’ Or. In the 20th century, Chablis’ wider recognition as a venerable wine-producing region suffered from the fact that bulk wine producers in California and Australia made unappealing white jug wine blends of various white grapes, rarely including Chardonnay, which they marketed as “Chablis.”

TYPE

White Wine, Chardonnay, Chablis Premier Cru

This white variety originated in Burgundy, but is now grown around the world. Its flexibility to thrive in many regions translates to wide flavor profile in the market. Chardonnay is commonly used in making Champagne and sparkling wines.