Domaine Billaud-Simon Chablis Grand Cru Vaudésir

Domaine Billaud-Simon

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Taster #5910 · Nov 2, 2020
92/100
Great acidity: more green apple with a hint of pineapple at the back end. Still going strong. Unfortunately, the last bottle.
2004 vintage
Taster #3718 · Jul 26, 2019
92/100
Not very familiar with Chablis. Very impressive how fresh this is. No oxidation. Pale color. Nice minerality in the nose with apples. Nice acidity still with touch of stone fruit
2004 vintage
Taster #5910 · Jan 11, 2018
93/100
Very pale, hints of green in glass but rich, mellow and resolved in mouth. Good acidity. Flinty but floral. No oxidation. Minerals and yet some tropical fruit. Very well-received by blind tasting group: either a Muscadet or Chablis, but all surprised it was 14 years old.
2004 vintage
Taster #8394 · Aug 9, 2016
86/100
Served a bit warm and tasted uneven. Not oxidized, just not put together.
2004 vintage
Taster #8152 · Apr 3, 2016
Horribly corked. As bad as it gets
2004 vintage
Taster #8152 · Apr 3, 2016
89/100
Opened another bottle after a badly corked one. Pale green mineral nose. The slightest hint of possible tca which affected the nose but not the palate. Linear and correct palate but lacked little excitement
2004 vintage
Taster #8394 · Sep 9, 2015
90/100
Pleasant.
2004 vintage
Taster #8152 · Jul 30, 2015
89/100
Green with hint of gold. Ripe grassy nose bit of exotic fruit. Quite fat on the palate with ripe fruit. Not the cut or energy of previous bottles.
2004 vintage
Taster #3136 · Jul 29, 2014
90/100
Haven't had chablis in a long time now, the nose is quite floral, fresh, with yellow-green fruit. What is yellow-green fruit Nat asks? Yellow chinese pears (lei) and a tinge of green apples and lemon. Luscious on the nose, but delineated on the palate, before rich honeyed talcum notes at the end. A transition phase. This wine is reminiscent of leaves turning yellow at the start of autumn, before they start to fall.
2004 vintage
Taster #8152 · Nov 12, 2013
91/100
pale green very bright. Expansive nose , rich, lanolin herbs but no heaviness. Powerful a lot of depth and minerality balancing richness. Fatter than expected even for a grand cru chablis. Still young.
2004 vintage
Taster #4419 · Mar 20, 2013
apple and sharply acidic fruit, great depth and complexity, vibrant, with savoury richness behind... needs many years but great potential. tip top
2004 vintage
Taster #8152 · Feb 14, 2013
92/100
Green straw colour . Fresh fruit grand cru depth and fan like finish.impressive
2004 vintage
Taster #8424 · Feb 21, 2012
91/100
Julian's Chablis Offline : Less expressive nose. Slightly lactic. Again, decent grip but still quite subdued. Needs time. ***(*)
2004 vintage
Taster #6708 · Jun 19, 2010
Supremely youthful with all its fresh lemon and mineral attributes. There’s just a suggestion of gooseberry or something tropical but in the main it’s all oyster shell and citrus. It has good shape, a rapier spine and is long and extremely precise…terrific stuff!
2004 vintage
Taster #4321 · Apr 14, 2007
88/100
K-B Spring ’07 Allocation Pick-up in Raleigh (Sullivan’s, Raleigh, NC) : No decant. Light color and a floral and vivid nose. Intricate, sunny flavors of pear, a touch of butter and a light mineral quality that broadens on the mid-palate and continued to pick up weight the longer it was decanted. Needs time. This was much better with food.
2004 vintage
Taster #2324 · Apr 14, 2007
90/100
A touch of herbal notes on the nose but the palate is screaming lime and lemon. Background minerality. Somewhat choppy on the midpalate and finish, but still quite nice. Medium palate weight with some acid sticking out especially on the finish. Hey, it's young! Does not have the smooth elegant presentation of the 04 Fevres, though I did not have this exact bottling from 04.
2004 vintage
Taster #1681 · Apr 14, 2007
88/100
GreenDrazi comes to NC! (Sullivan's- Raleigh, NC) : Popped and poured. This wine exhibited a light straw yellow color with aromas of citrus and herbs. On the palate, citrus elements were supported with floral and mineral elements that were amplified when paired with oysters. Before the pairing, the wine seemed a bit boring, but the pairing definitely brought forth the potential of this Chablis. HS88
2004 vintage