Robert Goulley Chablis 1st Cru Vaillons 2023

  • 93
  • $110
  • Drink by: 2025-2030

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This is a fine and elegant Chablis displaying bright notes of lemon and white peach with a subtle cracker biscuit nuance. It creates the perfect structure and frame to support a long, elegant and finely honed finish. It’s a wine that sparkles with life and energy through to the lingering finish. It’s a wine showing both richness and a fresh vibrancy with crisp, fine, chalky acidity complementing and balancing the fruit. Aromas of minerally lemon zest, fresh cream, and very lightly roasted cashew. The palate displays a subtle degree of phenolics to balance the textured fruit qualities. It’s a wine that displays a friendly, approachable palate already and certainly would be best in the shorter term.

Ray Jordan
Wine critic, author and journalist at Winepilot

Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.

Wine writing
Pilot
Ray Jordan
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Variety: Other, Specialty
Categories: Drinks, Imported Wines