In the battle for best Grand Cru in Chablis most people align themselves into two camps: Valmur and Les Clos. We’d rather not pick sides however as both wines capture the profundity of what Grand Cru Chablis is all about. Valmur has a full southern exposure and deep, rocky, limestone soils making powerful wines with a verticality to their minerality and an enormous capacity to age gracefully – remarkable considering that Benoît’s 1 hectare of vines here are some of his youngest. If stranded on a dessert island, either would be a worth companion.
