Samuel Billaud, Chablis 1er Cru Les Vaillons Vieilles Vignes, 2024 Wholesale10 This is a wine that

This is a wine that speaks softly and carries a big stick

but Louis Barruol (the Rhône hand behind Château de Saint Cosme)

The wine undergoes slow fermentation in the cellar's cool conditions and develops great balance between fruit and acidity with creamy texture and purity

and the wine reflects it: silky

allocated quantities

Samuel Billaud, Chablis 1er Cru Les Vaillons Vieilles Vignes, 2024 Wholesale10 This is a wine thatVaillons is the big left bank premier cru south of Chablis 129 hectares taking in eight lieux dits and Billaud's holding is a single plot in the heart of it, on old vines facing southeast into the morning sun. Shallow soil over hard Kimmeridgian limestone gives Vaillons its signature pairing of intense aroma and mineral tension, and this cuvee never meets a barrel: fermented and aged entirely in stainless steel, at least ten months on fine lees, so