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GAULT
MILLAU
2002
Le Magazine Septembre 2002 N' 356
..................2000 Vintage……………...
Gault Millau classification
The superb success
(notes 90 and more)
Domaine Billaud-Simon:
Chablis
Montée
de Tonnerre,
Chablis
Mont
de Milieu
The very nice success
(note 89)
Domaine Billaud-Simon:
Chablis
Mont
de Milieu vieille vigne
...................1998 Vintage
..…………..
The magnificent success
(notes 92
and more)
Domaine
Billaud-Simon:
Les
Clos
The exceptionnel success
(notes 91
and 90)
Domaine Billaud-Simon:
Chablis
Blanchots,
Chablis
Les
Preuses |
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European
Grand Jury classification
Grands Crus 1998:
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Billaud-Simon
Chablis
Blanchots
86
-
Billaud-Simon
Chablis
Les
Preuses
86
-
Billaud-Simon
Chablis
Les Clos
83
«
Right
from the start, Chablis wavers between its status of
burgundian wine, therefore playing with the strength, and
its soil made of kimmeridgian limestone which privileges the
delicacy. This ancestral debate is round again in the
european Grand Jury tasting. In its diversity, this does not
mean disparity as we saw it, some wine tasters like elegant
wines, some of them making the difference. Concerning the
wine taster that is opposite to the others, he shows his
exclusive attraction towards complex wines such as
Raveneau's Valmur or the strictness of Billaud-Simon's Clos.
Can we blame it ? As they are not numerous in this case,
this explains the bad but comparative classification of
these two famous wines ».
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