Patrick Piuze - 'Terroir de Chablis' 2020

Patrick Piuze - 'Terroir de Chablis' 2020

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A very pure and restrained Chablis crafted by one of the greatest producers in the region. Piuze is a maverick, insisting on hand-harvesting all of his stunning Chardonnay from an array of parcels with Premier or Grand Cru pedigree. Completely unoaked, this gorgeous Chablis focuses on minerality with crushed stone and gun flint on the nose. Medium bodied with vitality on the mid-palate and more stony notes on the finish layered with herbs. 

 

--------THE PRODUCER--------
Montreal-born Patrick Piuze established his own label in Chablis in 2008 having worked for the likes of Leflaive, Jean-Marc Brocard and Jean-Marie Guffens.  Patrick is one of the rising stars in Chablis and some critics are already talking about him as the new Francois Raveneau or Vincent Dauvissat. He has relationships with many of the Grand Cru vineyard owners and even produces an excellent Petit Chablis.  He is a terroir obsessive, making no fewer than eight different villages-level wines and tries to express their individual character with vinification entirely in stainless steel.

 

--------THE GRAPE--------

Chardonnay

Chardonnay is the white grape varietal behind the most prestigious and arguably the best wines in the world. It is a variety widely planted all over the world from Australia to South Africa and through the Americas. 

 

--------THE REGION--------

Chablis

The source of the most racy, light and tactile, yet uniquely complex chardonnay, Chablis, while considered part of Burgundy, actually reaches far past the most northern stretch of the Côte d’Or proper. Its vineyards cover hillsides surrounding the small village of Chablis about 100 miles north of Dijon, making it actually closer to Champagne than to Burgundy. Champagne and Chablis have a unique soil type in common called Kimmeridgian, which isn’t found anywhere else in the world except southern England. A 180 million year-old geologic formation of decomposed clay and limestone, containing tiny fossilized oyster shells, spans from the Dorset village of Kimmeridge in southern England all the way down through Champagne, and to the soils of Chablis. This soil type produces wines full of structure, austerity, minerality, salinity and finesse.

Chablis Grands Crus vineyards are all located at ideal elevations and exposition on the acclaimed Kimmeridgian soil, an ancient clay-limestone soil that lends intensity and finesse to its wines. The vineyards outside of Grands Crus are Premiers Crus, and outlying from those is Petit Chablis. Chablis Grand Cru, as well as most Premier Cru Chablis, can age for many years.