2024 Domaine Samuel Billaud Chablis 1er Cru "Vaillons Vieilles Vignes"
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James Suckling
Reviewed June 2026Clean and pure, with concentrated minerality, oyster shells, green apples and stone fruit. Full-bodied, really tight-knit and taut, full of salivating salinity and minerality. A cerebral vintage for chablis lovers to buy. Drink or hold.
Professional Reviews
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Jasper Morris
Made from 65 year old vines in the centre of Vaillons which unfortunately were at the centre of the hail there. Pale in colour. A really refined bouquet, excellent purity, salivating long before I get to the finish, a little youthful bitterness at the finish adds to the tension and salinity. Drink from 2028-2033. Tasted Jun 2025.
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Vinous
The 2024 Chablis Vaillons Vieilles Vignes 1er Cru comes from 60-year-old vines that suffered hail damage. It has a complex, focused bouquet that's quite intense due to the low yield (20 hl/ha). The palate is citrus-fresh, edgy and tensile on the entry. It's almost steely for a Vaillons, with just a slight reduction lending energy on the finish. The 2024 has great potential.(NM)
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Burghound
Note: from Vaillons proper that produced only 10 hl/ha in 2024. Airy and cool aromas include those of white pepper, floral, oyster shell and a whiff of tidal pool character. The super-sleek and borderline painfully intense medium weight flavors possess impressively length on the very dry and cuts-like-a-knife finale. Lovely.*Burghound Outstanding!*
Details
| Origin | Chablis, France |
|---|---|
| Type/Varietal | Chardonnay |
| SKU | 2025395 |