Samuel Billaud, Chablis "Grand Terroir", 2024 CHAMPCOUNT010725 A thirty-eight-year-old Pommard from a

A thirty-eight-year-old Pommard from a walled monopole

San Lorenzo

We had to hunt these bottles down in Italy

this is pure Nebbiolo: violets

Lucien and Lulu Peyraud rallied local growers to create the appellation and save old-vine Mourvedre from extinction

Samuel Billaud, Chablis "Grand Terroir", 2024 CHAMPCOUNT010725 A thirty-eight-year-old Pommard from aThe name is not marketing: this village Chablis is assembled from parcels on both banks of the Serein Les Pargues over on the left bank, Chapelot on the right, the latter pressed up against Billaud's own grand cru plots beneath the hill. All of it sits on Kimmeridgian marl, the fossil packed ancient seabed that gives Chablis its salinity, and all of it stays in stainless steel on fine lees with no oak at any stage. Samuel Billaud left the family's