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Samuel Billaud, Chablis Grand Cru Vaudesir, 2023

White Wine from Burgundy, France
by Samuel Billaud
$199.00
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Vaudesir is a natural amphitheatre folded into the middle of the Grand Cru hill, and that fold is what makes the wine: two slopes face each other across it, one warm and early-ripening, the other cool and late. Billaud owns plots on both sides and picks them a day or two apart before blending - the warm side brings perfume and flesh, the cool side brings tension, and in a sunny vintage like 2023 that cool side is the insurance policy. Fifteen-odd hectares of clay-heavy topsoil sitting on the same Kimmeridgian marly limestone as the rest of the hill; the wine ferments partly in stainless steel and partly in 400-litre barrels, then spends a year on fine lees in tank. Samuel Billaud struck out on his own in 2009 after leaving the family's Domaine Billaud-Simon, and he keeps his barrels large - 450 to 600 litres - with only a small proportion of new wood, so the site rather than the cellar does the talking. Give it several years; elegance and power arrive in the same glass once it opens out.

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Antonio Galloni

95 points

"The 2023 Chablis Vaudésir Grand Cru comes from two parcels on the east and west sides of the vineyard. This is very pure on the nose, with yellow fruit, crushed limestone and hints of blood orange. It's tensile and bursting with energy. The palate is very well balanced, with a sapid entry. This is a strongly marine-influenced Vaudésir, gently fanning out toward the intense finish. The 2023 is stupendously fine." —Neal Martin

Robert Parker

95 points

"Billaud’s 2023 Chablis Grand Cru Vaudésir is a superb wine, unwinding in the glass with aromas of orange peel, pear, apricot and oyster juice. Full-bodied, ample and enveloping, it seamlessly marries tension with concentration, finishing long and intensely. A seamless wine of notable potential, it will amply reward readers with the patience and means to lay it down for a decade or more." —Kristaps Karklins

More about Samuel Billaud

Samuel Billaud made wine for over 20 vintages at his family's Domaine Billaud-Simon before branching out in 2009 with his own vision. When the family domaine sold in 2014, he secured several prime vineyard parcels in Les Clos, Vaudésir, Blanchot, and other Premier Cru sites—15 hectares total. Hand-harvest for top cuvées, measured oak use (10–20% new), stainless steel aging for village wines. This is a modernist approach to classical Chablis—mineral, precise, terroir-driven.

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Turbot in cream, scallops, poached lobster, poulet de Bresse, Beaufort.

Tasting Profile

Apricot, dried white flowers, pear and tangerine zest over deep minerality. Full-bodied and layered, with grip and tension, and a long, persistent finish.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Chardonnay

  • Vintage

    2023

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Sustainable

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Full Bodied

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