DOMAINE VENTOURA Chablis
AB CSPC + 857056
BC CSPC +439433
Vintage: 2020
Case: 12x750ml
Region: Chablis AOC, France
Varietals: 100% Chardonnay
Alcohol: 13%
Tasting Notes
Dry and lean with lip-smacking mineral refreshment. Warm citrus and white flower aromas lead to pear and orange zest flavours with exaggerated flinty notes. Textbook Chablis - harmonious, sunny and mineral driven.
Chablis \shab LEE\
The wines of Chablis are made from one single varietal : Chardonnay. Chablis wines are dry white wines which are characterized by their purity, crispness, sophistication and minerality. The Chardonnay varietal gives results in Chablis unlike anywhere else. It draws its personality and character from a subsoil that is 150 million years old, and ripens in ideal conditions, in a semi-continental climate, which allow it to attain a good balance between sugar levels and acidity.
Chablis, France
Technical Notes
Vineyards: 35 year old vines
Soil: Clayey-limestone marl of Kimmeridgian
Winemaking: Wild yeast primary and malolactic fermentation (complete) followed by 10 months aging on fine lees in stainless steel vats with minimal action. Bentonite fining.
Region Notes
The Chablis wine region has much in common with Champagne province, when it comes to climate. It has a semi-continental climate without maritime influence. The peak summer growing season can be hot; and wintertime can be long, cold and harsh, with frosty conditions lasting to early May.
The region's oldest soil dates back to the Upper Jurassic age, over 180 million years ago and includes a vineyard soil type that is calcareous, and known as Kimmeridge Clay. All of the Chablis Grand Cru and Premier Cru vineyards are planted on this primarily Kimmeridgean soil, which imparts a distinctively mineral, flinty note to the wines. Other areas, particularly most of the Petit Chablis vineyards, are planted on slightly younger Portlandian soil, still of similar structure. The chalk landscape resembles some areas of Champagne and Sancerre.