The Domaine’s 2023 Chablis villages is also a fine version, and despite having only been bottled a bit more than three weeks before my visit, it was showing well. The wine’s aromatic constellation is vibrant and classy, offering up scents of fresh lime, green apple, flinty minerality,white lilies and a topnote of citrus zest. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex and shows off an excellent core of fruit for a villages level bottling, with bright acids, fine focus and grip and a long, minerally, complex and nicely precise finish. 2025-2045.

Sourced from a mosaic of exposures and elevations and incorporating old vines planted between 1969 and 1972, the 2023 Chablis Village offers aromas of pear, white flowers and freshly baked bread. Medium- to full-bodied, ample and charming, it is underpinned by ripe yet racy acidity and concludes with a long, saline finish. Harvested earlier to preserve freshness, this is a well-executed village-level Chablis.(WK)

Note: from domaine fruit. Here the expressive nose is similar if perhaps just a bit more elegant and displaying a whiff of mineral reduction. There is slightly better volume to the delicious medium-bodied flavors that possess unusually good power in the context of the appellation and the only nit is a trace of warmth. This too should drink well after only a few years of keeping.