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    2016 Albert Bichot Domaine Long-Depaquit Chablis Premier Cru Les Vaucopins 750 ml

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    Top-Shelf White Burgundy Steal

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    There’s Chablis, the standard-bearing Chardonnay wine from northern Burgundy, and then there’s exceptional Chablis. Today’s 2016 Domaine Long-Depaquit Les Vaucopins Premier Cru falls squarely in the latter camp because of its sacred terroir. 

    Vaucopins ranks among the very best vineyards of Chablis, bearing a striking resemblance to the region’s Grands Crus, with its south-facing, steep slopes and Kimmeridgian soils. Complex and layered with green apple, white peach, and juicy citrus notes underscored by classic flinty minerality, it is drinking beautifully out the gate and will astound over the next 3-5 years.  

    Traveling east and south of the town center of Chablis, the Grand Cru vineyards come first, like Vaudésir, Valmur, and Les Clos, which produce Chardonnays that run from $70 up to $500. Continuing southeast toward Premier Cru sites Montée de Tonnerre, Mont de Milieu, and finally Vaucopins where prices become reasonable again—though rarely quite as reasonable as $39.99 per bottle. Albert Bichot’s fastidious cultivation of vines over 30 years of age has meant recent releases, like today’s 2016 vintage, “can offer as much complexity and soul as cultish vignerons up and down the Cote d’Or,” according to Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. 

    Albert Bichot is a sixth-generation winery operator who lays claim to some of the most illustrious soil across Burgundy, including the Grand Cru monopole La Moutonne and plots in Clos de Vougeot and Corton. In 1967, he acquired Domaine Long-Depaquit, which dates back to the 12th Century with vines first tended by monks at the Abbey of Pontigny. Bichot’s investments in the property have propelled an evolution Allen Meadows of Burghound calls “extraordinary,” including the construction of a new winery and enforcing low yields in the vineyards.

    As 2016 and 2017 have delivered very small crops, driving up the region’s prices, this under-$60 Premier Cru white Burgundy is one not to pass up.