Samuel Billaud Mont de Milieu 1er Cru Chablis 2023
Coming from a large family of winemakers, Samuel Billaud is recognized as a leading winemaker. A great connoisseur of the terroirs that surround him, an experienced taster, he vinified for nearly 20 years for the family estate and in a few years made the Billaud-Simon estate a jewel of the Chablis region.
Samuel Billaud is committed to bringing these great terroirs to life by producing white wines recognized throughout the world for their precision, brilliance and intense minerality.
Samuel Billaud is considered to be one of the select few outstanding producers in Chablis. Testament to this is Samuel’s ability to bring out the unique characteristics of each of his fantastic terroirs. His wines have a distinctive elegance, balance and complexity that is seldom achieved with such precision. The Mont de Milieu vineyard is more than 45 years old and 20% of the wine is matured in 600 litre oak barrels to add subtle richness.
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The 1er Cru “Mont de Milieu” is magnificent showing notes of fine exotic fruit. It is riper than the 1er Cru “Montée de Tonnerre”. The mouth fill is dense, driven and layered. It is one really impressive example of this climat.
