Samuel Billaud chablis 1er cru "vaillons V.V" 2023 Breaking Ground The 2022 is slightly riper

The 2022 is slightly riper and and a little more opulent than recent past vintages

It is very voluminous on the palate

cloves and graphite

Tannins that are completely integrated

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Samuel Billaud chablis 1er cru "vaillons V.V" 2023 Breaking Ground The 2022 is slightly riperThe man who made Billaud Simon's greatest Chablis, now under his own name old vine Vaillons from the heart of the cru. Samuel Billaud spent years as the winemaking hand behind one of Chablis' most storied domaines before striking out on his own in 2009. This is his Vaillons Vieilles Vignes: fruit from vines well over 60 years old some pushing 70 planted in the historic core of the premier cru, raised entirely in stainless steel so nothing stands