2024 Samuel Billaud - Chablis Bougros (750ml) [PRE ARRIVAL]

The most powerful and structured wine in Billaud's Grand Cru lineup — and one of the most exciting Bougros bottlings in Chablis today. Wineanorak awarded 96 Points to the 2024, calling it a wine of incredible concentration and weight — bold citrus, pineapple, and pear fruit with amazing vitality and intensity, and a spicy, mineral character that is quintessentially Bougros at its finest. Lying at the western end of the Grand Cru hillside, Bougros' slightly warmer exposure and deeper clay-limestone Kimmeridgian soils give wines broader shoulders and more power than the more delicate Grand Crus, yet always retain classic Chablis tension and saline minerality. Aged with 15% new wood in large 450 and 600-liter barrels — enough to add gentle texture without compromising the wine's purity or terroir transparency — the hallmark Billaud approach. Neal Martin of Wine Advocate declared Samuel Billaud in the same tier as Dauvissat and Raveneau — and the Bougros is the wine that proves it most emphatically, with its thrilling bouquet of citrus peel, crushed limestone, and sea cave, and a palate of exquisite balance and perfectly judged acidity that fans out gloriously on the finish. Quantities are tiny. Cellar generously.