Samuel Billaud 'Fourneaux' 2022
Chablis 1er Cru
Burgundy, France
Regular price£321.50
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Arriving: November 2026
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| Style: White | Packaging: OCC |
| ABV: 13.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2025 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2040 |
| Grapes: 100% Chardonnay | |
Critic scores
92+ RP, 92 NM, 91 AM, 90-92 JM, 91 DC, 91 GM
Critic reviews
"The 2022 Chablis 1er Cru Fourneaux is showing particularly well, opening in the glass with notes of crisp stone fruits, white flowers, oyster shells and iodine, followed by a medium to full-bodied, satiny and concentrated palate with excellent depth at the core, racy acids and a saline finish."
William Kelley, September 2023, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Chablis Les Fourneaux 1er Cru has a slightly more austere bouquet than Billaud's other Premier Crus: crushed stone, smoke and touches of grilled walnut. Again, this has superb delineation. The palate is taut and fresh, quite sapid and lively. If I must quibble, it doesn't deliver the knockout complexity on the finish like the other cuvées. Still, this is a superb Fourneaux."
Neal Martin, June 2024, Vinous.com
"A discreet but not invisible application of wood sets off aromas of slightly riper white and yellow peach with subtle Chablis influence, in particular iodine. There is again excellent volume to the sappy and beguilingly textured medium weight flavors that possess solid power if limited refinement on the citrus rind and quinine-inflected finish that is firm enough to repay mid-term keeping."
Allen Meadows, October 2024, Burghound.com
William Kelley, September 2023, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Chablis Les Fourneaux 1er Cru has a slightly more austere bouquet than Billaud's other Premier Crus: crushed stone, smoke and touches of grilled walnut. Again, this has superb delineation. The palate is taut and fresh, quite sapid and lively. If I must quibble, it doesn't deliver the knockout complexity on the finish like the other cuvées. Still, this is a superb Fourneaux."
Neal Martin, June 2024, Vinous.com
"A discreet but not invisible application of wood sets off aromas of slightly riper white and yellow peach with subtle Chablis influence, in particular iodine. There is again excellent volume to the sappy and beguilingly textured medium weight flavors that possess solid power if limited refinement on the citrus rind and quinine-inflected finish that is firm enough to repay mid-term keeping."
Allen Meadows, October 2024, Burghound.com