Caves Jacquinot Chablis 1er Cru Vaucopin

A private lunch (Restaurant Frida, Bordeaux, France) : Directly from the Domaine - when the father died a few years ago, the son sold off some of the old stocks. Perfect provenance therefore, and it shows. Incredibly youthful colour. Beautifully matured, clean as whistle, retaining all its freshness (no dried yellow apples here) and terroir expression, intense - even incisive - aromas and flavours, hewn from the rock, salted lemon with a whiff of blonde caramel, slightly lactic, oyster shell, …