Chablis 1er Cru "Fourchaume", De Oliveira Lecestre - 2023

Name: Chablis 1er Cru "Fourchaume", De Oliveira Lecestre
Brand: De Oliveira Lecestre
SKU: 48684
Price: 61.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

750 mL

Item # 48684

The Premier Cru Chablis Fourchaume is a truly elegant and refined white wine that is a testament to the exceptional exposition of the site. The vines face west and are 40 years old. Aged in tank for a year before bottling, this is supple and fresh. Pair with roast chicken and potatoes.

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Color

White

Vintage

2023

Country

France

Region

Burgundy

Sub-Region

Chablis

Producer

De Oliveira Lecestre

Grape Variety

Chardonnay

Staff Pick Notes

I tried this Chablis over the weekend with Raclette and was blown away by the concentrated aromas and flavors upon my first sip. The Chardonnay grapes for this wine are sourced from the Fourchaume premier cru vineyard, located just north of the town of Chablis. You can expect wet-stone minerality on the palate that is synonymous with Chablis, but it also manages to dial up riper fruit flavors of peach, nectarine, and a little bit of apricot as well. The De Oliveira family founded their winery in 1955 and is currently farming 55 hectares of vines spread over the different vineyard plots in Chablis. Moreover, the family only uses stainless steel for fermentation and aging, so no oak influence is present in this wine. If you’re looking for a richer style of Chablis at a remarkably competitive price point, then I would recommend this one!

- NV

More About This Wine

Burgundy

The range of wine styles offered in Burgundy rivals that of any other region. In Chablis, Chardonnay is left unoaked to produce lean, crisp, steely wines with incredible acidity - a far cry from the vanilla-oak bombs that so many consumers associate with this grape. Fans of rich, unctuous, and well-oaked Chardonnay will enjoy Chassagne-Montrachet, whose age-worthy offerings offer all the fatness of a California wine, yet retain a very Burgundian, mineral-driven core and great acidity....

Chardonnay

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking world. It is a flexible, eager-to-please grape, responding well to just about anything a winemaker...

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