William Fevre Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru 2020 (750ML)

97 DE / 96 WA / 96 BH / 94-97 JM / 17.5++ JR

Fèvre's largest grand cru, with 4ha located higher up in Les Clos, meaning this is cooler climate and with much more chalk than Kimmeridgian. 50% of the vines were planted by William Fèvre's father in the 1940s. Perfect balance between precision, concentration, acidity and ripe fruits, with oak that’s not at all apparent. A fresh, glorious wine.--Andy Howard MW, Decanter

The 2020 Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos is another brilliant effort from Fèvre's immensely able winemaker, Didier Seguier, and his team. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of confit citrus, fresh bread, oyster shell, orange zest and crisp orchard fruit, it's full-bodied, satiny and muscular, with a concentrated, tensile profile and a long, intensely saline finish. It's the broadest and most powerful wine in the range, while remaining quintessentially Chablisien.--William Kelley, The Wine Advocate

Tasting note: A cool, restrained and airy nose grudgingly divulges its combination of lemon rind, green apple, quinine and acacia blossom scents that are also trimmed in discreet wood. There is again excellent volume and concentration to the powerful and muscular flavors that also coat the palate with dry extract on the impressively complex and hugely long finish. This is classic Les Clos in that it manages to be at once big and overtly powerful while remaining refined and classy. This is, in a word, stunning.--Allen Meadows, Burghound

Glowing citrus yellow. Restrained intensity, a wine of the highest class from the first sniff. At the outset it is all about the fruit, and the stones (undeniably present) can wait. There is a huge intensity of pure white fruit, very concentrated at the finish, inalienably Les Clos. I suggest a long wait before you open your bottles, eight to ten years or more. Tasted: June 2021--Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy

Very old vines here that were planted in the 1940s and 1950s. This is the largest grand cru with 27 ha. BP&F own 4 ha and are therefore the largest producer. 50% of their eight plots were planted by William's father, on top of hill. Stony, with limestone dominating and less clay. Deep roots. Early maturing and always harvested in first half of the harvest. The yield was quite a generous 40 hl/ha. 40% of the wine was vinified in barrel.
Intense nose – more so than the Preuses or Bougros. Solid concentration and obviously a long life with good acidity. A real mouthful in which the fruit just about matches the astringency but it would be shame to drink it too young…--Jancis Robinson