Byron Hewett

9.2

Terrific. Grapefruit, saline, minerally. Long. Outstanding QPR. — 6 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.0

I liked this. A bit of spritz. 10.5% abv. Crisp , clean, saline. — 7 years ago

Greg Koslosky

9.3

Very saline and mineral driven with a touch of honey . Nice stuff! . — 8 years ago

Conrad Green

9.5

Lovely oyster shells and citrus on the nose. Classic raveneau on the palate. Great minerality with a chalky, saline quality. Very focused and structured. Fantastic — 9 years ago

with Lloyd, Walker and 2 others

Jim Wagonfeld

9.3

Light/medium yellow. Nose of shells, citrus. Palate ripe citrus, green fruit, saline and stone. Lacks the precision and angularity of the best, probably a function of the vintage. Just a little fat in its breathe. Surely GC. — 10 years ago

with Judy and Valerie

Jeremy Noye

CEO Morrell & Company

9.4

Saline. Honey suckle. Flinty. Zesty. Long. Ever changing. Real argument that 2011 is a must have vintage for Chablis. — 10 years ago

Matt

9.0

Leesy and rich aromas of yellow apples, beer foam, tart pears, and flint. Palate start with crisp malic apple and broadens out into oyster shells, lemon, lime and more saline beer foam. Great weight and approachability for its youth and lovely. — 11 years ago

Sergio Licea

9.3

Strawberry, bubble gum, cool whip, saline. Excellent acidity, slightly effervescent texture, crisp dry finish. Perfect summertime rosé. — 11 years ago

Robert Love

9.0

Green apple, lime zest, and flinty minerals on the nose. A little taut in the mouth, but a nice saline finish. — 12 years ago

Collin Moody

9.0

Awesome high acid, saline muscadet. Killer price point too. Really lovely. — 12 years ago

Conrad Green

9.6

A gorgeous nose. All oyster shells, limestone, salinity, hints of lime, greengages, peter. Very poised, saline and cool-blooded. On the palate it is super sophisticated. Very precise floral notes. Rockpool, mellow citrus with super fine balancing acidity. This is deep and profound but pretty light on its feet. A beautiful calm vintage. — 7 years ago

with Bex and Naoko

Neil Cornish

9.1

Once this had a chance to open it was very oyster shell saline/mineral and intense. — 8 years ago

Michael Duffy

8.9

Savory, saline - almost oceanic - and volcanic. Wasted it not drinking with food. — 9 years ago

Chris Vactor

9.1

Starts out floral and citrus with a long anise and bitter almond finish. Evolves into saline minerals with a pleasant acidity and aromas of green apples. — 10 years ago

Christine Havens

9.5

As stately as I expected it to be (can one really expect anything less of a wine as legendary as Cristal in one of Champagne's most celebrated vintages?) glinting pale gold, the color of a freshly-minted coin. The 2002 Champagne Cristal Brut Millésimé is imbued with soaring notes of pear and smoke, brioche and chalk. Disgorged in 2009, this is a precise wine—it has a sort of crystalline weightless density, with fruit buoyed by a fine mousse, and edgy saline-tinged minerality emerging at the close. 10 grams dosage.

"You must be as precise as a Swiss watchmaker, I tell my team," our host, M. Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Chef de Caves at Roederer stressed. Precision in spades. — 10 years ago

Jean-Francois Pelletier

9.2

Pale lemon color. Very typical Chablis nose of lemon and green apple. Very mineral and saline palate, almost metallic, with high acidity and a long finish. This is excellent. I love this producer. — 10 years ago

with Frankie

Nick Wolfe

9.3

There's a grapey, white peppery, peachy, fantastically strong nose on this wine. Palate brings along a saline, oxidative sherry-like beauty. Finish is very long. Gorgeous wine. — 11 years ago

Joe Loughran

9.2

Light and delicious. Nice complexity w/o the weight. Strawberry, peach, saline. — 12 years ago

Robbie Ward

9.7

A wine that gives so much! Layers of rich nutty saline goodness. Fresh and clean at the same time. Brilliant — 12 years ago

Zachary Leinberger

9.8

The kind of Chardonnay that people write poems about. Unforgettable saline minerality. A stunner. — 13 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.2

This was singing! So young & fresh with citrus, saline, mineral & racy acids — 7 years ago

Chip Hughes

9.0

Nose of dried flowers, fino sherry and green tea. Notes of cider and autolysis detract just a bit- as they make the wine seem simple (which it isn’t)- but I’m sure the natural wine hive mind will disagree on that point. Still, quite saline, focused and super long. Imagine a few years of aging will bring added weight and richness. #occhipinti #sicily — 8 years ago

Erik Nordman

9.2

Wonderfully executed, textbook Chablis. Fermentation in cuve; mix of cuve and neutral oak elevage. A wonderful example that speaks to the appellation. Tribut is a protégé of Dauvissat and I think that having studied under that kind of expertise definitely shows here. Full of verve and crackling energy while also showing a some richness and a bit fuller body from the warm vintage. Definitely would be best in a few more years but still a pleasure to drink now.

- Color: medium (-) straw-gold hue
- Nose: just-ripe yellow apple, ripe starfruit, tons of saline oyster shell quality and crushed chalk minerality, lemon pulp, Parmigiano cheese rind leesiness, heavy cream character from malo, some slight fennel spice and a touch of white florals
- Palate: ripe starfruit, lemon pulp, crushed oyster shell salinity, Parmigiano rind leesiness, heavy cream, and a slight fennel note
- Acid: high
- RS: bone dry
- Alcohol: medium (+), not hot or noticeable
- Body: medium (-)/medium, with an oily texture from elevage on lees and malolactic as well — 9 years ago

with Cassie

Erik Nordman

9.2

Crazy awesome Provence pink. Aged sous voile in foudres for a year. Bracing and salty. Brined blood orange and strawberry, garrigue, and a crushed seashell-esque saline minerality. Medium (+) acid, medium (-) body, bone dry. Absolutely killer with spaghetti squash carbonara!! — 10 years ago

Marc Adelman

9.4

saline and fresh sliced peaches. waterfall-inducing, gushing acid...now if i can wait ten years to open the other bottle... — 10 years ago

123

9.4

Peachy-pink colored. Saline and mineral. Notes of pair and hints of stone fruit. I paired it with panko-breaded chicken with a spicy honey sauce, kale slaw, and sweet potato wedges. — 10 years ago

Nate Miles

8.9

Saline and chalky rounded edges. Yum. — 11 years ago

Joe Santagata

9.5

crisp non-ox Jura , banana peel, caramel saline .. delicious! — 11 years ago

Andrea Erwee

9.7

Floral fresh bouquet with a mineral saline crisp dry finish.
Love it!! — 12 years ago

Jonathan Lipsmeyer

9.8

2004 Raveneau Montée de Tonnère. After a half hr open, when you bring your nose to the glass, an amazing vinyl/green banana/mint/chalky limestone nose awaits that is so potent and alluring it evokes some deep-seated, Neanderthal sensory orgasm. It takes a bit of time for the puckering lemon acidity to poke out. Big, broad, and creamy...probably the greatest Chablis I've ever had. So very powerful but not clunky. Wow. The glass residuals are wildly saline and honey/creamy a bit. So, so good — 13 years ago