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

The most seductive and silky of Billaud's Grand Cru lineup — and consistently one of the most sought-after Vaudésir expressions in all of Chablis. Wine-Searcher's aggregate of critics awards the 2024 a stellar 94 Points, confirming this as one of the top ten Vaudésir wines in the appellation and one of the most highly searched Grand Cru Chablis on the market today. Billaud owns parcels of Vaudésir outright — original estate holdings from the historic Billaud family vineyard legacy — farmed organically and vinified with the same gravity-fed, minimal-intervention precision that defines the entire domaine.  

Vaudésir is the most classically elegant and immediately captivating of the seven Grand Crus — its central location on the hillside and uniquely complex mix of Kimmeridgian limestone and clay giving wines of exceptional aromatic generosity and silky, broad-shouldered richness that sets it apart from the steelier Les Clos and the more austere Blanchots. Vaudésir always produces wines of great finesse — bright and zesty with acacia, lime, lemons, chamomile, and touches of orange peel, with a palate displaying classic Chablis minerality but with a broader structure and great length. The 2024 shows a departure in style from recent warmer vintages — cool, straight, and slicing, with white flowers and a keen line, fully ripe yet elegantly precise and taut, with a beautifully salty, mineral finish. Jancis Robinson reviewed the 2024 Vaudésir specifically — a testament to its singular quality in this vintage. Quantities devastatingly small. An essential Chablis for any serious cellar