This is Chablis at its absolute best—electric, unpretentious, and utterly captivating. Hailing from "Vau de Vey," one of the coolest and steepest Premier Crus in the region, the 2022 Domaine de l'Enclos delivers the exact brand of focused intensity that true Burgundy lovers live for. The benchmark 2022 vintage gave these 45-year-old vines the perfect blend of sunny generosity and mouthwatering, razor-sharp energy. Now showing brilliantly with a touch of bottle age, it packs a serious mineral punch that easily rivals White Burgundies at three times the price.
Brothers Romain and Damien Bouchard may have launched Domaine de l’Enclos in 2016, but their roots run four generations deep. Raised in the vineyards alongside their mother—a member of the historic Tremblay winemaking family—and their father, Pascal Bouchard (who sold his namesake business to Albert Bichot in 2015 while retaining his prized land for his sons), the brothers combine legendary pedigree with modern organic precision. Sourced from 45-year-old vines planted on wind-swept Kimmeridgian slopes, this organically farmed 1er Cru is gravity-fed, minimally intervened, and crafted to showcase the unadorned brilliance of Chablis terroir.
In the glass, a luminous straw-gold hue opens up to an intoxicating nose of green apple, white peach, lemon zest, crushed chalk, and oyster shell minerality. mouthwatering salinity and vibrant acidity, cutting through a satiny, lees-aged texture loaded with key lime, white flowers, and roasted green almonds. "Vibrant, flinty, and unapologetically fresh—this is quintessential Chablis, tailor-made for fresh oysters or sea bass."
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