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Louis Michel Chablis Forets Premier Cru 2019 - First Bottle

Technical Details

Blend	Chardonnay
Winemaker	Guillaume Michel
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Appellation	Chablis
Vineyard	Forets
Aging/Cooperage	12 months in stainless steel
Alcohol	13.5

Louis Michel Chablis Forets Premier Cru 2019

Chardonnay | France

JM90-93, WA92, BH89-91

$37.95 $45.00 - 750mL

Absolutely incredible for the $. We don't know any other way to sum it up. Satisfies at every level. If you love Chablis, this will be your new go-to, we promise. If that doesn’t get your blood pumping considering this wine isn’t $60 or $150, we don’t know what will! The Forets cru is located on the western side of the Serein river in Chablis, on a south-facing hill of high-quality Kimmeridgian soils just a few miles southwest of the village of Chablis. It is typically elegant, steely, mineral and precise, as exemplified by this wonderful Louis Michel bottling. You will fall in love with it. $37.95...we still can’t believe it!

PAIRING IDEAS: Our new favorite thing is crab cakes. So incredibly easy. Lump crab meat, a bit of mayo, bread soaked in milk, some parsley, a bit of Old Bay, if you like. Set your oven on broil, and cook them until they brown up a bit (not more than a few minutes). Squeeze lemon and serve with a salad -- perfection with Chablis!

MUSIC SUGGESTIONS: Having just come from seeing Willie Nelson at Shoreline on Saturday, well, his voice is still playing in our heads. Highly recommended!

Technical Details

Blend	Chardonnay
Winemaker	Guillaume Michel
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Appellation	Chablis
Vineyard	Forets
Aging/Cooperage	12 months in stainless steel
Alcohol	13.5%

About The Producer

The Michel family has been cultivating their passion for tradition and the Chablis terroir since 1850. In the mid-20th century, the family stopped making wine in wooden barrels in favor of stainless steel tanks to create clean, pure, and precise Chablis without adding artificial woody flavors. Through this philosophy, combined with limited yields inspired by organic wine-growing techniques, the domaine has developed a worldwide reputation for fine winemaking in stainless steel tanks. A firmly-rooted sense of excellence is passed down from generation to generation. Louis Michel & Fils has always been a family business and is managed today by Guillaume Gicqueau-Michel.

Reviews

90-93

Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy
Only half a normal crop. Paler colour and, some shellfish on the nose. Very chiselled, with a, sort of rigid intensity here, and a fresh limestone finish. Extremely successful this year, the essence of kimmeridgian clay-limestone.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Chablis 1er Cru Forêts delivers notions of citrus oil, fresh bread and yeasty reduction. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and chiseled, it's bright and tangy, with good tension and a saline finish.

89-91

Allen Meadows - Burghound
This is sufficiently reduced to push the underlying fruit to the background at present. There is fine volume to the delicious, lemony and succulent medium weight flavors that also flash good minerality on the clean, dry and relatively powerful finish that exhibits just a touch of rusticity.