Chablis Grand Cru "Blanchots", Daniel-Etienne Defaix

Chablis Grand Cru "Blanchots", Daniel-Etienne Defaix - 2012

Item # 34883 750 mL

The Defaix family has a long history of making top quality Chablis. Daniel-Etienne continues his family's legacy and proves his expertise with this Grand Cru. Round and full-bodied with exquisite honeyed notes and a rich creamy texture that comes not from oak, but extended lees contact.

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Color
White
Vintage
2012
Country
France
Region
Burgundy
Sub-Region
Chablis
Producer
Defaix
Grape Variety
Chardonnay
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Burgundy

The range of wine styles offered in Burgundy rivals that of any other region. In Chablis, Chardonnay is left unoaked to produce lean, crisp, steely wines with incredible acidity - a far cry from the vanilla-oak bombs that so many consumers associate with this grape. Fans of rich, unctuous, and well-oaked Chardonnay will enjoy Chassagne-Montrachet, whose age-worthy offerings offer all the fatness of a California wine, yet retain a very Burgundian, mineral-driven core and great acidity....

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Chardonnay

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking world. It is a flexible, eager-to-please grape, responding well to just about anything a winemaker...

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