2024 Chablis, Domaine de la Genillotte

This is Chablis in its clean, classical register: bright, mineral and quietly elegant. It opens with lemon zest, green apple, white flowers and sweet citrus, before moving into pear, greengage plum, wet stone and a faint breeze of fresh hay. There is no unnecessary decoration here, just cool Chardonnay shaped by limestone, acidity and the kind of restraint that makes Chablis so useful at the table.

The palate is crisp and lightly textured, with citrus and orchard fruit carried by crunchy acidity and a pure, stony finish. It broadens just enough in the middle to feel satisfying, but the final impression is all freshness, clarity and mineral snap. This is not grandstanding white Burgundy. It is a proper village Chablis: precise, refreshing and very easy to come back to.

For when you want white Burgundy with freshness, manners and a seafood soul.
Pairs with oysters, prawns, crab, grilled sea bass, lemon roast chicken, goat’s cheese, smoked trout, or a simple plate of gougères.
If this wine were… a sound, it would be cutlery on white linen just before the first oyster arrives.

Domaine de la Genillotte is a family-run Chablis estate in Lignorelles, in the north-west of the appellation, now associated with David Depuydt. The domaine works around 16 hectares of Chablis, with vines generally aged between 30 and 40 years, including a main parcel on the “Petit Bois de la Genillotte” plateau and other fragmented Lignorelles sites on clay-limestone soils. The style is deliberately classical: fresh, vivid and mineral, with the 2024 showing citrus, sweet apple, Reine Claude plum, crunchy acidity and a pure, lightly textured finish.