This is dense with a rich coating of flesh on the linear structure, complemented by a touch of orange blossom. Amazing energy underpins the fruit, all rounded off by a fabulously long finish.

A perennial favourite Cuvée at Berry Bros. & Rudd, this wine is grown on the steepest of slopes. The 2011 has a heavenly floral nose on top of the classical Chablis markers and a weight and density in the mouth which is backed up by spicy notes of really ripe fruit. Very long indeed, with a lovely thread of minerality, this is a wine of great terroir that shows very well this vintage.
Jasper Morris MW, Berrys' Burgundy Director Picking started as early as 31st August at Domaine William Fèvre, which is extraordinarily early for Chablis, but a good decision seeing as it preserved the essential acidity in grapes which were ripe in their low-yielding vineyards. The crop was reduced on the right bank after a touch of frost slightly disturbed flowering and hail which arrived on 28th June. Didier Séguier, the talented winemaker, draws some parallels with 2000 and, in terms of the moderate but balanced acidity, 2002 – both of which are fine vintages indeed for Chablis. All of the wines listed below were farmed organically in 2011.

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