12/12/2023 0 Comments Chablis wine not![]() ![]() It can be quite austere with piercing acidity. To oak or not to oakĬhablis is known for its white flower, white orchard fruit, citrus zest, salinity, minerality, and even flinty notes. This equals grapes with low sugar, high acidity, and light body. Summers tend to be hot, giving the grapes their best chance at growth and ripening, but fall sometimes brings heavy rains, troubling for a quality harvest. The cold continental climate means limited sunshine and elevated danger of spring frost. Being so far north, the climate can be brutal on the vines. It is younger than Kimmeridgian (by 2 million years) and it lacks the marine fossils so fresher and fruitier Petit Chablis vines are grown in the area.Īnother important component to Chablis is the climate. Portlandian is the other predominant soil in Chablis. This is what adds the depth of minerality to the wines, creating a linear focused acidity. Kimmeridgian soil from the Jurassic era (150 million years ago) is rich in calcareous clay and limestone. It is truly a terroir driven wine with the unique soil playing an important role. ![]() A terroir driven wineĬhablis offers wine lovers one of the best examples of time and place. Pre-phylloxera vine plantings in the region were over 40,000, today they are under 6,000. It is a region with many forests at the tops and base of the hills around the Serein River. It shares a similar chalky soil to Champagne that contributes a steely minerality to the wines, which is one of the reasons I appreciate the wine so much. However, there is one Chardonnay that hits the mark for me again and again Chablis.Ĭhablis, often called the Golden Gate to Bourgogne, is at the northern tip of Burgundy. These are challenging qualities for the grape Chardonnay, much less the wine. I like my white wines to be crisp, refreshing, linear, and steely. It doesn’t have so much to do with where it is made as how it is made. I drink it and enjoy different expressions of it with different foods however, rarely will I pour myself a glass to simply sip and enjoy. I am just incredibly finicky about how I like it. ![]()
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