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Dauvissat describes 2001 as a fragile but reasonably well-balanced vintage with a tendency toward oxidation. Although many critics of machine-picking say that this labor-saving method is especially unsuited to a rain-plagued harvest (too many grape skins are broken and any rot on the skins can quickly begin to affect the must), Dauvissat claims this approach is actually advantageous, as it allows him to get the fruit into the cuverie with a shorter period of exposure to air. Beginning with the 2000 vintage, Dauvissat has a new system whereby he can filter through plaque by gravity, an improvement over his old kieselguhr filter, which required him to pump the wine. Dauvissat told me that he made 55 to 60 hectoliters per hectare in 2001, and that yields in 2000 and 1999 were higher. The huge 2000 crop, he told me, was a bit dilute, and lower in acidity than 2001; "not a grandiose vintage, but good" was the way he described 2000. I found Dauvissat lesser '01s distinctly lean, like so many wines from this vintage that had to be brought in early before rot grew rampant. Dauvissat poured me 2000s from his early bottling (September '01), as he felt the wines from the May '02 bottling (earmarked for the American importer) would be much too closed to show. Rosenthal Wine Merchant, Shekomeko, NY)

From 2001 and 2000 Chablis (Jul 2002) by Stephen Tanzer

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2000 Chablis Montmains

Release Price: $28

Color: White

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