Dauvissat Chablis La Forest 2014
24 bottles available
$85 per bottle

94 points View From the Cellar: “The 2014 La Forest from the Dauvissat family is simply stunning and one of the finest young vintages of this exceptional wine that I have had the pleasure to taste from the domaine (and I have been visiting here for many years now). The brilliant nose soars from the glass in a very Les Clos-like blend of pear, apple, anise, dried flowers, flinty minerality, citrus peel and a gently smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and shows off great cut and grip, with a superb core of fruit, stunning mineral drive and a very, very long, zesty finish that soars with backend energy and precision this year. Great wine.”

94 points Burghound: “This is more restrained still, indeed so much so that the nose only reluctantly reveals its notes of classic Chablis aromas that include green fruit, iodine, tidal pool and oyster shell. There is outstanding volume and almost painful intensity to the medium-bodied flavors that brim with a fine minerality before concluding in a stony, long and impeccably well-balanced finale where once again a hint of bitter lemon appears. This stunner of a wine will need at least a few years of bottle age to fully harmonize and to become more accessible. I would add that the 2014 version of this wine is perhaps the finest that I have ever seen; the 2010 is incredible but this has the potential to top even that superb effort.”

94+ points Vinous: “Bright, pale yellow. Lovely perfumed lift to the aromas and flavors of lemon zest, grapefruit and white flowers. Tactile and dense but very closed on the palate, combining a sexy sweetness for the year with powerful salinity and superb depth. Most impressive today on the energetic, slowly mounting, palate-staining finish, which leaves the retronasal passage quivering. Premier cru Chablis from the region’s left bank does not get much better than this.”