Domaine Lavantureux Chablis Premier Cru Vau de Vey 2022

Drink it now or cellar for up to 15 years. No need to decant. Founded in the 1970s, Domaine Lavantureux is a family-run winery with approximately 20 hectares of vineyards. The founder, Roland Lavantureux, had sold 2 hectares of vineyards in the Premier Cru Vau de Vey in the past due to the difficulty of working them and the poor exposure that did not guarantee a balanced and consistent maturation. His sons later bought back about one hectare of vineyards in a location with better exposure. The Chardonnay grapes come precisely from this vineyard between Chablis and Beine, in the Vau de Vey valley. On this Premier Cru site, the soils are very steep and calcareous, so the work in the vineyard has to be manual. After the harvest and fermentation in steel tanks at low temperatures, the finished wine rests half in steel and half in barrels for a minimum of 10 months. The Premier Cru Vau de Vey is a perfect example of a Chablis with an intensely mineral character that is also revealed on the nose, along with citrus and white fruit aromas. On the palate, it is dry, tense, and lean with a firm and well-integrated acidity and a mineral pungency that extends throughout the tasting until the long and persistent finish. It is an expressive, elegant, and characterful wine that pairs beautifully with oysters, crab, grilled fish, and seafood.

Price: £33.12 from 8wines UK