2023 Louis Jadot Chablis, France, Burgundy, Wine Review

If you like crisp Chardonnay, this is a bottle to try. And, its affordable! Pale, silvery gold in color, clear and bright. The nose has grapefruit with some minerality and slight salinity. Medium bodied. Oily texture. Excellent acidity. On the palate, grapefruit with crispness. Long finish. OK, this might not be life changing, but for $30, this is one of the better Chardonnay's I have had in awhile. Nice on its own, and very food friendly. Well worth trying to see if you like this style.

Grade:

A-

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Vintage:

2023

Current Price:

$30.00USD

Chablis: History & Recommendations for the Great Burgundy White Wine

About 110 miles southeast of Paris, at the northern tip of the Burgundy wine region France lays Chablis. Chablis is the name of a village that has given its name to a region producing some of the best white wines in the world. The region of Chablis encompasses 19 towns and is about twenty by fifteen kilometers in size. In France, by law, wines are named after the place where they are fashioned and not the grape varietal. The wine producers of Chablis have spent hundreds of years determining which grapes produce the best wines for their soils and the answer: crisp, mineral-driven wines made from the Chardonnay grape.

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2021 Louis Jadot Chablis 1er Cru Montée de Tonnerre, France, Burgundy, Wine Review

Vintage:

2021

Score:

Grade:

A-

Current Price:

$70.00USD

Green/gold in color, clear and bright. The nose has green apples, slight peach with a bit of gun powder. Medium bodied. Good balance. On the palate, green apples with some minerality. Good finish. This is drinking well now and should continue for the next five to eight years. It is nice on its own and also very food friendly. It would go nicely with smoked Salmon.

2012 Louis Jadot Montrachet, France, Burgundy, Wine Review

Vintage:

2012

Score:

Grade:

A-

Current Price:

$450.00USD

Deep golden in color. Perhaps showing some advanced signs but not all the way oxidized by any means. The nose has some minerals, slight lemon peel and a bit of spice. Someone mentioned caramel, but it seemed more like butterscotch from the oak. On the palate, this isn't flabby but the acidity isn't noticeable either. Lots of minerals, some lemon. A bit of depth. Slightly clipped on the finish. Overall, this is a very nice Chardonnay, but when one buys and pays for Montrachet, the expectations are high. This will work with lighter foods.

Judgment of Paris: Film "Bottle Shock" Brings the Paris Tasting of 1976 to the Big Screen

Bottle Shock On May 24, 1976, Steven Spurrier, a British wine merchant hoping to stoke sales at his French-wine-only shop, held a wine competition in Paris. In this competition French judges were invited to blind-taste top chardonnays and cabernet sauvignons from France and California. In an event that would later be dubbed the Judgment of Paris , the California wines –included merely to serve as the “sacrificial lambs” to the supposedly superior French wines- won the competition in a shocking upset. This singular event revolutionized the wine industry and put California on the map as a major world producer of fine wine. This story comes to life on the silver screen for the first time with the film Bottle Shock , starring Bill Pullman, Alan Richman, and Dennis Farina among other notables. I recently chatted with Bottle Shock Co-Writer and Producer Jody Savin about the film. Why this film now? To answer this question in a socio-political sense, I would venture to say that we live in challenging times.

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2016 Domaine Louis Moreau Chablis Grand Cru Valmur, France, Burgundy, Wine Review

Vintage:

2016

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Grade:

A-

This wine does see some oak. Green gold in color. The nose is big and round with peach, slight apples and a bit of confectioner's sugar. Medium bodied. Balanced acidity. On the palate, this is round and easy to drink. Fully mature. Flavors of peach with a bit of citrus. This drinks very well on its own and would work nicely with seafood with a butter sauce. Drink over the next five years.

2023 Louis Jadot Chablis, France, Burgundy, Wine Review

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