Domaine Samuel Billaud - Chablis 2017
The brilliantly talented Samuel Billaud was finding family politics hard going, so he has now founded his own wine label in Chablis separate from Domaine Billaud-Simon.
As far as we are concerned, the talent lies in the person and not the history, so we are delighted to have taken a small position with Samuel’s own wines. He does not own the vineyards but he does manage them, as well as crushing the grapes and vinifying the wines. We can certainly recognise his style in these offerings.
This wine gathers grapes from a relatively young vineyard plot (around twenty years old) on the lieu-dit Chapelot (very close to the Premier Cru “Montée de Tonnerre”), with the grapes of very old vines (90 years old), from the lieu-dit Les Cartes. After being aged on the lees, only in stainless steel tanks, this Chablis Grands Terroirs presents an eminently fresh and salty profile.