William Fevre Chablis Grand Cru "Valmur" 2019

A classic Chablis nose features notes of pear, green apple, iodine and sea breeze. The dense, serious and overtly powerful big-bodied flavors flash a sleek muscularity on the textured, sappy and youthfully austere finish that exhibits outstandingly length. This bad boy of a Valmur won't win any awards for refinement but it is beautifully constructed and clearly built-to-age for a very long time. *Don't Miss!*

*95 pts Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy:* "They have the plot along the road that divides the steep slope from the crest, which plateaus out and gets E/SE/SW exposure. Pale lemon colour, rich sunny nose, chalky undertones. This has the backbone, it has the shoulders, and finishes on classical Chablis, with just an additional touch of all-spice. Back comes the acidity to complete the job."

*95 pts Wine Advocate:*

A highlight this year is the 2019 Chablis Grand Cru Valmur, a full-bodied, deep and layered wine evocative of citrus oil, clear honey, blanched almonds, beeswax and iodine. Satiny-textured and concentrated, with racy acids and a long, electric finish, it's another immensely promising wine from Fèvre that should be forgotten in the cellar. I left my tasting with Didier Séguier wondering if the 2019s might be the best vintage I've ever tasted at Domaine William Fèvre. At this address, the vintage's low yields have translated to wines of remarkable concentration, but Séguier has also achieved levels of cut and tension that are rare in contemporary Chablis. My only reservation (if one can call it that) is that these are serious, structured wines that are tightly wound and introverted after their recent bottling, a tendency no doubt amplified by their DIAM closures; therefore, many are surely destined to be drunk too young. But readers who purchase Fèvre's top 2019s and forget them for more than a decade are going to be richly rewarded, of that I'm confident. Aside from the quality of the 2019 vintage, the other big news here is that Fèvre is converting to organic farming, an ambitious and admirable project for this 78-hectare domaine.

William Fevre無疑是Chablis產區的頂級酒莊。 Chablis一共有7塊著名的特級田，William Fèvre在全部7塊特級田都擁有產地，是整個Chablis地區擁有特級田種類最多的酒莊。

William Fevre於1998年被寶尚父子莊收購，如今可與當地頂尖的酒莊相媲美。酒莊特級園面積佔Chablis產區特級園面積的20%，在Didier Seguier及團隊的精心管理下，葡萄酒重現其往昔的純淨透徹，充分顯示出不同地塊的本色。

《Wine Spectator》: 酒莊在葡萄種植方面格外精心與環保，全部實行手工採收，部分葡萄的酒精發酵在橡木桶中進行。更重要的是，酒莊以極大的耐心去細緻了解當地風土複雜的特質，而不是年復一年地重複所謂的“釀造秘訣”。這已近成為酒莊的價值準則。