Louis Michel & Fils - Chablis Vaillons 2023 (750ml)

John Gilman 93 points

The Michel family’s 2023 Vaillons is also outstanding. The bouquet here is bright and deep, offering up scents of pear, apple, lemon zest, white lilies, a beautiful foundation of chalky soil tones and a topnote of lemon zest. On the palate the wine is pure, precise and full-bodied, with excellent depth of fruit at the core, fine soil signature, vibrant acids and a long, seamlessly balanced and complex finish. Fine, fine juice. 2025-2050.

Jasper Morris 90-92 points

"Pale colour with some concentration. This has stayed entirely in white fruit but with more flesh than usual, though still a mineral backbone and a little salinity."

Wine Advocate 91 points

"Informed by deep soils, Michel’s 2023 Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons is one of the more fleshy, charming wines. Soaring from the glass with a bouquet of yellow fruit, pastries and clear honey, it’s full-bodied and lively, with tangy structuring acids a long, saline finish. As always, it offers immediate appeal, though under Diam closure, it shall age well. Guillaume Michel presides over this 25-hectare estate, with most of the land located in the historic part of Chablis. This estate has long been a reference point for tank-fermented and -matured Chablis, a style that the Michel family helped to popularize in the 1980s. Intense and tensile wines are the calling card here, pure and unadorned in style."(KK)