The palate is very well-balanced with supple ripe tannins and fine acidity

dark chocolate and toasted espresso

Finesse and elegance

There is excellent vibrancy to the attractively textured medium weight flavors that also exude a refreshing salinity on the citrusy

More lifted than the 2007

Billaud Simon, Chablis Clos Vintage:2012 The palate is very well-balanced(from a . 44 ha parcel of vines planted in 1966). This possesses what is arguably the most aromatically complex nose in the range with its perfumed and ripe scents of oyster shell, sea breeze, green apple, lemon rind and white flowers. The wonderfully refined large scaled flavors are almost pungently mineral and this stony character continues onto the markedly dry, balanced and hugely finish that exudes hints of iodine. This is breathtakingly good