2019 William Fevre Chablis Grand Cru Les Preuses, Burgundy

Note: from two parcels of vines that total 2.55 ha, or 22% of the entire appellation.

This too could be from nowhere else except Chablis with its citrus-tinged aromas of tidal pool, white flowers and shellfish. The racy, intense and painfully intense larger-scaled flavors possess cuts-like-a-knife delineation on the bone-dry and super-saline finish where a distinct bitter lemon quality slowly emerges. This is very classy juice and also built-to-age.

95 points Allen Meadows burghound.com 10 Oct 2021 Drink: 2031+

The 2019 Chablis Grand Cru Les Preuses bursts from the glass with scents of orange oil, warm bread, crisp stone fruits and oyster shell. Medium to full-bodied, elegantly textural and enveloping, yields of only 23 hectoliters per hectare mean that it's immensely concentrated, with racy acids and a long, pungently intense finish.

95 points William Kelley robertparker.com

This has not fallen clear yet. Didier likes the marriage between the two parts of Preuses, i.e. both the, southerly slope and the section, which slopes gently to the north. Generous ripeness. Greater warmth and roundness than Côte Bouguerots, but still a good line of tension through the middle, with a useful slight bitterness at the finish – les jolis amers. Grand cru weight and impressive length bringing out the saline character at the end.