Domaine Louis Moreau Petit Chablis, Burgundy, France

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The 2016 Petit Chablis has a light nose of apple peelings and limestone. You just want to cry out “More!” The palate is balanced and light, with reasonable acidity here, but it seems to drift toward the finish and feels very basic and, for want of a better word, forgettable. I preferred the 2015 Petit Chablis that I tasted last year.

The 2015 Petit Chablis sees eight months in stainless steel tank. It has as clean and fresh gun-flint tinged bouquet. The palate is crisp and punchy in the mouth, linear, but with a fine threat of acidity and delivering pleasant salinity on the finish. This is well crafted and should drink well for 4-5 years.

The 2014 Petit Chablis from Louis Moreau spent eight months in stainless-steel vat and is bottled under screwcap. It has a rather simple, you might describe it as "commercial" nose, that is missing the intensity of its peers. The palate has a decent weight but it is missing the edginess that a Petit Chablis deserves and feels a little flabby on the finish.

The 2013 Petit Chablis is fermented in stainless steel and is matured for 10 months. It has a vibrant bouquet with citrus lemon and orange zest, crisp and focused with good vigor, especially for Petit Chablis. The palate is well-balanced, although the tension on the nose is not fully transferred into the mouth, and the finish just needs a little more pizzazz. As such, it is decent Petit Chablis but it is rather unmemorable. Drink now-2016. It was a rather perverse showing of Louis Moreau’s Chablis wines, the lower ranking crus deserving of a light round of applause while the grand crus showed less well. No known US importer.