La Manufacture Chablis Grand Cru Valmur 2014 bream-creek one of the great value

one of the great value Alsatian whites

making it ideal for the Clone 15 plantings and expressed in the typically bright fruit and marked thread of minerality that Petrie Chardonnay is renowned for

with deeper cherry and earth notes in the background

The grapes in 2023 had lovely fruit concentration with bright natural acidities

The wines from Nicolas Joly are regarded as a benchmark for Chenin Blanc throughout the world

La Manufacture Chablis Grand Cru Valmur 2014 bream-creek one of the great valueThis is aromatically fresh, fine, and elegant with a slightly reserved nose of green fruit and oyster shell, where the latter component also characterises the delicious, serious, and almost aggressively mineral flavours that culminate in a penetrating and explosive finish. A striking wine with really beautiful acid fruit dry extract balance and huge length that does not seem to end.