Régnard Chablis Montmains Premier Cru
Chablis, France
Vintage:2022 (Current)
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The SOMM Journal 98 Points
Fresh and crisp to the point of being exacting, with echoes of sage surrounding a youthful, flinty frame. Tart lime coats the tongue, adding a dusty shiver of chalky oyster shell. Notes of dill with a twist of pure lemon blossom cleanse on the finish.
View From the Cellar 91+ Points
Maison Régnard’s 2022 Chablis “Montmains” is crafted entirely from hand-harvested parcels of vines, with ninety percent of the cuvée raised in stainless steel tanks and ten percent in older oak casks. The wine’s aromatic constellation is bright and complex, delivering scents of apple, pear, a complex base of chalky soil tones, just a touch of paraffin, white flowers and just a whisper of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied and still fairly youthful in personality, with good depth of fruit at the core, fine soil signature, a good girdle of acidity and a long, well balanced and still quite primary finish. This is of course already quite approachable, but in reality it is still a young wine and more precision and complexity will certainly develop if the wine is given just another year or two in the cellar to blossom. It is a very good bottle of Montmains in the making, but its best drinking days are still a couple of years down the road. 2025-2050.
Decanter 94 Points
Crisp and mineral with a depth of savoury ocean salinity and a smoky tone of chipped flint and crushed slate that leaps from the glass with a suggestion of lemon rind. This Premier Cru comes from Montmains, a medium-sized mountain that sits lower than the peaks in its immediate surroundings. The soil has ample clay, giving the wines a freshness and core of minerality. An assemblage of yeast selections inoculated this wine, a core of rich lemon fruits offering a creaminess, brightened by piquant crushed stone and sea spray salinity.