Rene et Vincent Dauvissat-Camus - Chablis 2022 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $112.00
| Producer | Rene et Vincent Dauvissat-Camus |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Subregion | Chablis |
| Varietal | Chardonnay |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 8301 |
| Size | 750ml |
Decanter: 94 Points
Green apple fruit with a touch of bitter pear skin adding bite. Dauvissat has four parcels with the largest opposite the premier cru of Forêts. A great 'straight' Chablis which has a super-fine texture to go along with the ripeness and lingering acidity. (Drink between 2025-2029)
Burghound: 89-92 Points
This is aromatically similar to the Petit Chablis with just a bit more Chablis typicity. There is also better underlying tension and detail that suffuses the medium-bodied flavors that possess slightly more refinement all wrapped in a more mineral-driven and drier finale. This is excellent for its level and a wine that could also be enjoyed young or held for up to a decade. Buy it. (Drink starting 2029)
Vinous: 90-92 Points
The 2022 Chablis Village has a perfumed nose like a more flamboyant version of the Petit Village with similar yellow fruit but a bit more gumption. Lovely delineation. The palate is well-balanced with slithers of citrus peel on the entry. Very elegant with shucked oyster shells bursting forth on the finish. Excellent. (Drink between 2028-2040)
Wine Advocate: 90-92 Points
The 2022 Chablis exhibits scents of white peach oyster shell and white flowers mingled with subtle hints of nutmeg and youthful reduction. Medium to full-bodied satiny and incisive it's concentrated and racy concluding with a long precise finish. Vincent Dauvissat?who forsook a career as a shepherd to become one of France's most celebrated vignerons?is technically retired but in reality remains very much a continuing presence at his eponymous domaine and it was with him that I tasted the 2022s from barrel along with a selection of 2021s. Spring frost in 2022 unlike in 2021 was followed immediately by warm weather so the secondary buds flourished and delivered an ample homogenous crop. As I wrote last year there's no grower in the region who has done a better job of retaining all of Chablis's classical signatures in the warmer sunnier vintages of the last decade and this is once again true of 2022 which retains the tension and salinity one seeks at this address in a vintage where many others have produced extremely fruit-driven soft wines. If 2022 represents a success in Chablis's new paradigm 2021 is a throwback with higher acidity and a more reductive profile. "We picked just before gray rot began but botrytis was rampant which is why the wines have lost their green highlights this year" Vincent observed. Yet despite that at this early stage the 2021s are less aromatically exotic than either 2013 or 2016 at the same point in time and seem set for a graceful evolution: readers might want to think of them as a somewhat fleshier more generous version of the 2007 vintage at this address. Readers will remember that farming here is organic but without certification. The harvest is by hand and the wines ferment in tank before racking to barrel with the lees (Raveneau's Chablis by contrast are racked to barrel more or less without their lees) spending a second winter in wood before bottling. A first bottling destined for the American market sees a light filtration while a second bottling?some of which is sealed with wax some of which sees a foil capsule?takes place a little later in the year without filtration. Published: Sep 07 2023
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