Notes:

Piuze says that his 2012 Chablis Montee de Tonnerre originates with a single hands-on grower who “is one of those meticulous men who has never, ever produced wine but has grown grapes all his life†(and who also supplies Piuze’s outstanding Vaucrains). There is an impressively overt if somewhat opaque sense of sheer density to this wine, which is loaded with salt- and alkali-tinged lemon, grapefruit, and kelp. Mouthwateringly long and mysteriously marine and mineral, happily, there are 17 barrels of this, and it should fare well in bottle through at least 2020. WA 91-92