Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Tank sample. A clear step up in complexity and scale. The nose combines classic Chablis minerality with a deeper fruit profile than the Côte de Léchet, showing green apple, Granny Smith, sweet lime, crushed stone, and remarkable purity. Still unmistakably old-school Chablis in style, but with more flesh and breadth wrapped around the mineral core.

The palate is spectacular. Concentrated, sapid, and intensely structured, with tremendous depth and persistence. Where Côte de Léchet feels like a mineral storm, Vaillons presents similar intensity through fruit, texture, and architecture. The fruit is layered and juicy, but the structure is impossible to miss, carrying the wine across a long, powerful finish that feels built for decades rather than years. The minerality remains firmly in place, but everything is broader, deeper, and more complete. Still extremely young, but already showing the balance, concentration, and authority of a serious Premier Cru. A brilliant Vaillons and one that should reward long-term patience. — 2 days ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Quite an unusual wine.

Nose: very serene. White flowers.

Palate: not super dense. Quite elegant. Silky. Mineral. Green apple. Beautiful.

A bit more oak than I like. Needs 12 months.

Fass selections — 4 months ago

Wills Allan

9.2

Delicious light bodied red from Epineuil, Burgundy. Bought from Stroud wine shoo and drank with Claire on her birthday in Coaley. — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Classic Chablis turned up several notches. The nose is pure and expressive, showing lemon, green apple, sea air, crushed stone, and a distinctly maritime character, but with more flesh and ripeness than expected. There is real fruit here, not just minerality, and it gives the wine an inviting generosity without sacrificing tension.

The palate is where 2025 announces itself. Huge energy, huge acidity, and remarkable concentration. This is electric Chablis. The fruit is bright and mouthwatering, but the acidity drives everything forward, carrying waves of limestone, oyster shell, and mineral intensity across an exceptionally long finish. There is real depth and persistence here, flirting with Premier Cru quality at times, while remaining unmistakably village Chablis in character. A textbook expression of the appellation, full of nerve, precision, and classic Dampt tension. One of the strongest examples of this bottling I can remember tasting. — 2 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Really terrific nose. Green apple, wet earth, so many stones and just bright and alive. Really gorgeous nose. Palate is full of energy and crackle. Terrific acidity and freshness and so much minerality. Rich yet extremely tensile. Juicy like nobody’s business and an extraordinary finish. 9.2 for now but pushing 9.3. — 2 days ago

Laura Colleen Kemp

9.4

Bright, acidic, at gala — 2 years ago

Ceccherini Cristiano

8.9

@Delectable Wine not a Vielles Vignes, the label says Tradition
Easy, quite on the fruit, perhaps a little sweet too
Not bad, not great — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Tank sample. Explosive classic Chablis nose, almost all mineral and brine, with seashell, Kimmeridgian limestone, wet stone, and only faint hints of lemon and lime underneath. Almost no fruit in the obvious sense. This is a mineral blizzard, wildly expressive and completely old-school, like 1950s-style Chablis wired to a power station.

The palate is stunningly concentrated, with serious acidity, but also real body, density, and richness. It has the electricity and structure of a great acid vintage, but the flesh and substance to carry it. Briny, stony, deep, and intensely architectural, with waves of seashell minerality rushing through the finish. The acidity clamps down at the end and brings everything into sharp, thrilling focus. Very young, obviously, but already gorgeous in its purity and intensity. A serious 25-year Côte de Léchet in the making. — 2 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Easily the most complete wine in the range today. The nose is all class: elegant oyster shell, brine, crushed stone and sea air, but presented with extraordinary lift and refinement. The fruit is the most expressive of the premier crus, yet nothing feels heavy or obvious. The palate is seamless, combining juicy concentration, unctuous texture and remarkable purity. No hard edges anywhere. Everything flows. The concrete egg seems to amplify harmony rather than richness, giving the wine incredible breadth while preserving its Chablis soul. The finish is already long and complex, though still showing a touch of youthful awkwardness that should disappear with time. A wine of real finesse and sophistication. 9.5 with upside. — 2 days ago

Anders Johnson

9.2

Focused and delicious. — 3 years ago