Samuel Billaud 'Séchet' V.V. 2021
Chablis 1er Cru
Burgundy, France
Regular price£671.47
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Arriving: Late July 2025
| Style: White | Packaging: |
| ABV: 13.0% | Closure: |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2025 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2042 |
| Grapes: 100% Chardonnay | |
Critic scores
93+ RP, 92 NM, 93 AM, 17 JR, 92-94 JM, 91+ GM
Critic reviews
"Another chiseled classic is the 2021 Chablis 1er Cru Séchet Vieilles Vignes, a medium to full-bodied, racy and layered wine evocative of citrus oil and white currants mingled with apple blossom, beeswax and oyster shells. Saline and penetrating, it was matured for 18 months in tank."
William Kelley, September 2023, RobertParker.com
"The 2021 Chablis Les Séchets 1er Cru is still obdurate and timid on the nose, tightly coiled and very pure, hints of orange blossom reluctantly emerging. The palate is very well-balanced with a saline attack, taut and fresh, lovely and poised with a malic finish that needs more persistence to develop. Give it time."
Neal Martin, July 2023, Vinous.com
"This is also aromatically cool and restrained with its overtly citrus-suffused aromas of ripe white orchard fruit, iodine and ocean breeze. There is borderline painful intensity to the dense, sappy and markedly stony flavors that conclude in a strikingly long, moderately dry and well-balanced finale that isn't quite as refined yet it's even more complex. This beauty of a Séchet is packed with potential and should prove to be especially long-lived."
Allen Meadows, August 2023, Burghound.com
"The vines are now 80 years old, on 161/49 rootstock, but they gave a good yield, 30 hl/ha. All in tank where it will stay until next April or May. Pale colour, while the bouquet actually suggests more flesh than we expect from Séchets. Only white fruit, very pure, typically fine dry concentrated finish. Superb aftertaste."
Jasper Morris, June 2022, InsideBurgundy.com
William Kelley, September 2023, RobertParker.com
"The 2021 Chablis Les Séchets 1er Cru is still obdurate and timid on the nose, tightly coiled and very pure, hints of orange blossom reluctantly emerging. The palate is very well-balanced with a saline attack, taut and fresh, lovely and poised with a malic finish that needs more persistence to develop. Give it time."
Neal Martin, July 2023, Vinous.com
"This is also aromatically cool and restrained with its overtly citrus-suffused aromas of ripe white orchard fruit, iodine and ocean breeze. There is borderline painful intensity to the dense, sappy and markedly stony flavors that conclude in a strikingly long, moderately dry and well-balanced finale that isn't quite as refined yet it's even more complex. This beauty of a Séchet is packed with potential and should prove to be especially long-lived."
Allen Meadows, August 2023, Burghound.com
"The vines are now 80 years old, on 161/49 rootstock, but they gave a good yield, 30 hl/ha. All in tank where it will stay until next April or May. Pale colour, while the bouquet actually suggests more flesh than we expect from Séchets. Only white fruit, very pure, typically fine dry concentrated finish. Superb aftertaste."
Jasper Morris, June 2022, InsideBurgundy.com
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