1981 Chablis

White Wine Of The Vintage
Leroux's Chassagne-Montrachet Les Embazées, summed up all that was best in 2008 for the whites - quite closed at first, but soon opening up and showing an all-enveloping feeling of fruit with a firm, very pure finish. Beautiful!
(Tom Cave Cellar Plan Manager)

This wine starts out as a delightfully chubby Chassagne before tightening up on the palate. There’s a fine combination of weight and structure, along with an undeniable sensuality.
(Jasper Morris MW, BBR Burgundy Buyer)

White Wine Of The Vintage
Caroline Lestimé's wines really stood out this year for their excellence across the board. The pick of her superb range of Premier Crus was the Caillerets: classy and complex with great concentration of minerally fruit and tremendous elegance. My tasting note finishes wow!.
(Chris Pollington Fine Wine Sales Advisor)

Full, pure and powerful, this really shows its class from the outset, building several layers of flavour on the palate. It has a great feeling of luminosity and a fabulous finish. Brilliant! Magnums and Jeroboams are packed in wooden boxes.
(Jasper Morris MW, BBR Burgundy Buyer)

Beautiful, pure, fresh and delightful, with superb balance right from the start, this has a terrific depth of fruit, a sense of grace and harmony, and a lovely mineral finish.
(Jasper Morris MW, BBR Burgundy Buyer - June 2012)

Fine, plump and aromatic with white peaches to the fore, this wine’s rich, generous fruit covers the latent acidity and delivers a lingering finish

Similar in bouquet to La Cabotte but, if anything, with an even greater density of flavour, this wine offers an explosion of fruit with pears, peaches and fresh apricots developing across the palate. The acidity is almost hidden by the richness of the fruit but there is a seamless harmony throughout; a grand wine indeed.

Arnaud’s Clos des Ambres is fine, pure and fresh on the nose, developing a little butteriness after a few moments in line with a typical Meursault. Yields were especially low after spring hail, and this consequently has exceptional weight on the palate. Fabulous.