Best Chablis 2017 wines

The higher part of the Blanchot grand cru gets more sunshine, but this isn't a powerful wine as you might expect. It's elegant and restrained,...

One of the very best wines of the vintage, as it often is, this is a wine to cellar and cherish. It would be a...

The Dauvissat holdings touch La Moutonne but make a very different style to the Long-Depaquit wine. Fine, delicate and subtle, this lightly wooded grand cru...

The parcel may be tiny at only 0.1ha, but these old vines, planted high on the slope in 1951, have produced a stunning 2017 encapsulating...

Samuel Billaud sources grapes from both sides of this contrasting grand cru, and his wine is always correspondingly well balanced. This is showing a little...

Vaillons Vaillons, as the core of this large premier cru is known, supplies the majority of this cuvée. It's an incredible wine, with the classic...

Unwooded, as it always is, this remarkable wine comes from a single, east-facing parcel. It's saline and elegant, with a pithy austerity that's almost Riesling-like,...

Hit by the frost in 2017, this vineyard produced only 12hl/ha, but what a wine this is. Notes of kelp and green malt are accompanied...

Chablis' so-called 'eighth grand cru' is actually an assemblage of 95% Vaudésir and 5% Les Preuses. Rich and powerful, it's leesy, textured and complete, showing...

Les Clos produces the richest of Chablis’ grands crus. From 50- to 60-year-old vines; 60% in stainless steel, 40% in used barrels. Great precision and...

No one can rival William Fèvre's 4.12ha of holdings in Chablis' most prestigious grand cru, much of it from old vines. The wine is leesy,...

Seven parcels - four above the path and three below it - go into this classic expression of Les Clos, now, alas, reduced in volume...

This is the less wooded of the two Les Clos bottlings from the Pinsons, but it's still quite a rich, powerful style. It's dense and...

The best of the Billaud-Simon grands crus in 2017, this comes from old vines on the northern part of slope. It may be unwooded but...

Laroche’s top wine is made with the best barrels from its Blanchot grand cru holdings. It's a taut, monastic wine, with deftly integrated wood, bracing...

Now reduced to 3.7ha since 0.8ha were given to his nephew, Vincent Dauvissat's 12 parcels of Forest (his spelling) are still producing a spellbinding wine....

Two parcels - one in Chapelot, the other in Montée de Tonnerre - are the sources of this delicious, ageworthy premier cru. Yields were low,...

Not many people have vines in Séchet, but they all make excellent wines - and none more so than Samuel Billaud. Iodine and oyster shell...

Made with a 1ha selection of purchased grapes sourced from a vineyard planted in 1955 on very stony soils, this is typical of the best...

Now made separately from Fèvre's Fourchaume bottling - it's technically part of the same large premier cru - this has the structure and complexity of...