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CHABLIS

2011 1er Cru Fourchaumes Domaine Adhémar et Francis Boudin

EN PRIMEUR
ChardonnayWhiteFrance,BurgundyChablis1er Cru 12.5%Fourchaume

Obvious juicy fruit, with a mineral tension and fresh acidity, it remains easy and finishes with a cool buttery note. Ripe Fourchaumes.L&S (Jan 2013)

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Rating: 17 Matthew Jukes www.matthewjukes.com (Jan 2013)

Rating: 91 Tim Atkin MW, www.timatkin.com (Jan 2013)

Light nose with some richness. Richer than most. Quite evolved. For a premier cru, QGV 2016-2024 Rating: 16 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2013)

Domaine Adhémar & Francis Boudin, also known as Domaine de Chantemerle, has supplied L&S since our very first list. Adhémar, who sadly departed on his 96th birthday, was a well-known personality, never short of a story. He was in the leading group of the pioneering growers who cleared scrub and planted some of the original Chablis vineyards. It was hard, and he only stopped keeping cows alongside ('if you didn't have a cow or two you died of hunger') in the mid-1950s. It is astonishing to think that the Premiers Crus were only defined in 1975.

Adhémar was the first to bottle the macabrely-named 'Homme Mort' Premier Cru separately, (it is usually sold as part of la Fourchaume) after a geologist confirmed his belief that it closely resembled the soil structure and exposition of the Grands Crus. The name is as a result of the discovery, when the vines were originally planted, of the body thought to be that of an English soldier from the Hundred Years’ War.

Francis Boudin, now aided by the next generation, his daughters Angélique and Virginie, as well as Angélique's husband, continues to make wines that are, for Chablis, rich and yellow gold, fatly concentrated, unoaked and pure, with a mildly buttery edge rounding out that minerally, stony ethereal Chablis character. These are wines which can be consumed with enormous pleasure in their first year after the harvest, or kept (even the simple Chablis) for several years.

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