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

The most elegant and finessed of Billaud's Grand Cru lineup — and one of the most beautifully poised expressions of Les Préuses in all of Chablis. Wine-Searcher's aggregate of critics awards the 2024 a stellar 94 Points, continuing an extraordinary run of consistent acclaim for this cuvée across every vintage. Situated on a gently sloping section of the Grand Cru hillside between Vaudésir and Bougros, Les Préuses is revered for wines that unite refinement with quiet power — resting on classic Kimmeridgian limestone soils packed with marine fossils that give the wine its unmistakable chalky minerality and saline lift. Although Préuses sits atop Bougros, it is a cooler site that tends to produce wines of greater finesse — and sourced here from vines planted in 1949, the depth and character of the fruit is extraordinary. Neither as delicate as Blanchots nor as powerful as Les Clos, it occupies a harmonious middle ground — aromatically showing lemon peel, white peach, and green apple layered over crushed shell and wet stone, with a poised and finely textured palate of incisive acidity and a long, searingly chalky finish. The 2024 vintage produced heartbreakingly small quantities — Les Préuses recorded some of the lowest yields in all of Chablis at just 10 hectoliters per hectare — making this among the rarest bottles of the entire vintage. An essential and irreplaceable Grand Cru Chablis