La Manufacture Chablis Grand Cru Valmur 2014 bream-creek The grapes in 2023 had

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

The nose is intense and refined with dominant fruity notes of pineapples

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

The finish is persistent and surprising with some hints of fennel offering a slightly savoury finale

one of the great value Alsatian whites

La Manufacture Chablis Grand Cru Valmur 2014 bream-creek The grapes in 2023 hadThis 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.