Wines of Chablis
Everything you need to know about Chablis wines. History of the region, best vintages, appellation hierarchy and top winemakers
In mid-July, the first club meeting dedicated to the wines of Chablis took place in the midst of summer
The tasting was educational and practical and fully corresponded to the spirit of the Wine Talks Club.
The participants faced a difficult task to understand the wines of this northernmost region of Burgundy. Here are some questions we were looking for during the tasting:
- What are the distinguishing characteristics of Chablis, how to recognize blindly?
- Is the hierarchy of appellation grounded?
- Choosing a winemaker style: oak or steel?
- Aging of Chablis wines?
- Are all 1er Cru and Grand Cru equally useful?
Chablis is perhaps the most famous French white wine in the world. The fame of this wine spreads far beyond the small hamlet even more than 100 years ago. On the pages of Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” we meet Chablis several times. Chablis’ success has long been exploited in California, USA, where without a shadow of embarrassment they wrote Chablis on labels of cheap white wine and thus multiplied its…
