Chablis Premier Cru 'Butteaux', Domaine Samuel Billaud, 2024
Chablis Premier Cru 'Butteaux', Domaine Samuel Billaud, 2024
- 75cl
- White Still
- Chardonnay
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Est. delivery in 2027
Samuel Billaud now sits unambiguously at the very top table of Chablis. Neal Martin put it bluntly: “Samuel Billaud is one of the most exciting winemakers in Chablis… Would I put him in the same tier as Vincent Dauvissat and Raveneau? I would.”
The 2024 vintage only sharpens the focus. Chablis was hit brutally by frost, mildew and savage yield losses, yet Billaud emerged with wines of striking purity and control. Jasper Morris describes them as wines of “precision and purity without any rot in sight,” drawing comparisons to 2014. Yields are tiny – in some cases vanishingly so – and several cuvées simply do not exist this year. What remains is a concentrated core of village and Premier Cru wines that show exactly why this estate is held in such esteem, with Martin continuing, “Billaud has become highly sought-after over the last five years, a winemaker at the top of his game”.
Crucially, this is still Chablis priced for drinking, not collecting dust. While Dauvissat and especially Raveneau have long sailed into another pricing universe, Billaud offers a comparable level of seriousness at far more humane numbers.
What the critics say:
"Escaping the hail, the 70+ year old vines came through with a good yield of 30 hl/ha. Pale in colour with a sensual grace to the nose, Butteaux always has a little more flesh than a classic Montmains. That suggestion of Right Bank. Then on the palate we come back to the Left Bank with this biting acidity easily covered by the fruit. *5/5 stars*"
"The 2024 Chablis Butteaux 1er Cru comprises three barrels this year, partially barrel aged as usual. This has an intriguing, well-delineated bouquet with almond and white tea scents infusing the citrus fruit. The palate is tightly wound and sorbet-fresh on the entry, with blood orange and quince notes emerging on the edgy finish. Again, so much energy is locked up in this Chablis. It has great potential. "
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