2019  1er Cru Vaucrains

"Much more lively purple. After a series of very good wines, with the village cuvées close to the 1ers crus in quality, along comes this absolutely brilliant wine, so lively, with a taffeta texture alongside the necessary backbone. Enjoy the gorgeous perfumed cherry and raspberry fruit, absolutely not exaggerated. There is a perfect sense of balance to the 2019 Chicotot Les Vaucrains. Tasted: April 2021." - 5/5 Stars & 95pts Jasper Morris MW

2019  

89-91 Points, Neal Martin, Vinous ---- The 2019 Chablis Village is matured in stainless steel tank for 10 months. It has a tightly wound bouquet with scents of orange blossom and a touch of tinned apricot; good delineation here. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, and lively from the start, offering plenty of citrus fruit joined by desiccated orange peel and a touch of spice on the finish. Excellent.

2019  

"Interestingly, this is aromatically quite similar to the Valmur save for the presence of an abundance of floral and shellfish elements. The super-intense, indeed almost painful, broad-shouldered flavors possess evident minerality and outstanding delineation that possess a bracing salinity on the hugely long finale. This too is clearly built for extended cellaring and is going to need at least 5 to 7 before it will be approachable. In a word, excellent." - 95pts Burghound

2019  

"The 2019 Chablis Vaudésir Grand Cru, which I did not taste last year, offers well-defined scents of lemon sherbet, vervain tea and orange pith. The palate is vivacious and lively with a creamy texture. You might be duped into thinking there is more new oak in this cuvée, but it’s only around 5%. Taut and saline on the finish, this lingers wonderfully in the mouth. It will be difficult to resist in its youth." - 94pts Vinous

2000  

2022  

"The 2022 Gevrey-Chambertin Village has a lively bouquet of brambly red fruit tinged with sous-bois and redcurrant pastilles. Quite delicate and nicely focused. The fresh palate is relatively spicy on the entry and very well balanced, with a little more intensity on the finish than expected. Yet, it retains wonderful composure." - 91-93pts Vinous & Outstanding Burghound

2000  

2022  

"The very pretty nose is spicier still with its cool and broad-ranging panoply of aromas that include red cherry, violet and just a hint of earth. There is very fine volume to the refined, intense and gorgeously textured flavors that possess excellent depth and flat-out superb persistence. This is a Griotte of finesse but make no mistake, it has the underlying material and balance to age for years. A knockout." - Don't Miss!, Burghound ---- "There are fully two and a half barrels of the 2022 Griotte-Chambertin Grand Cru, a deep and multidimensional wine redolent of sweet berries, plums, vine smoke, rose petals and exotic spices. Full-bodied, satiny and suave, with a layered, textural core of sweet fruit framed by melting tannins, it's seamless and enveloping, concluding with an expansive finish." - 96-98pts WA

1994  

1997  

2020  Cotes d'Auxerre Blanc

Cotes d'Auxerre Blanc ---- "Lavallée's 2020 Bourgogne Côtes d'Auxerre Blanc is very promising, offering up notes of citrus, Anjou pear, green apple and white flowers. Medium-bodied, elegantly fleshy and concentrated, it's fine-boned but intensely flavored. It's produced from deep but stony soils and, in total, amounts to a mere four barrels." - 88-90pts William Kelley, Wine Advocate ---- One of my most exciting discoveries in Chablis and the Auxerrois was fledgling Domaine Clément Lavallée. Clement's father is the proprietor of a substantial, modern and mechanized domaine in Saint-Bris, but Clément's aspirations were more artisanal. He started his own label in 2019, with just 3.5 hectares supplemented by purchased fruit - a surface that's grown to 5.5 hectares today. Eschewing herbicides, he cultivates the soils with lightweight tractors and keeps chemical treatments to the minimum. Working with a variety of sites and cépages, harvest lasts a full month. In the cellar, whites see a long pressing, with Clément selling in bulk any juice that doesn't please him, and reds see long macerations with a percentage of whole bunches. Élevage takes place in used wood on the lees, and the wines are never pumped. What I tasted on this first visit indicates that Lavallée hit the ground running with his very first vintage. Textural but incisive, pure and penetrating, I was immensely impressed by these young wines - from pungently mineral Chablis, to perfumed and intense reds, to Saint-Bris that's more Auxerrois than it is Sauvignon, everything here comes warmly recommended, and I encourage importers to beat a path to this new domaine's door.

1988