Vincent Dauvissat Chablis La Forest 1er Cru 2023

CRITICAL ACCLAIM:

“The 2023 Chablis 1er Cru La Forest is nothing short of superb in bottle and ranks among the year's most authoritative wines. A pure, marine-inflected opening—iodine, lemon peel and oyster liquor mingled with beeswax and dried apricot—precedes a concentrated yet tensile palate of taut muscularity. Bright acidity and abundant chalky extract lend the wine a bracing, kinetic edge, culminating in an intensely saline, persistent finish. Dauvissat here once again affirms its status as one of the site's greatest interpreters.

Vincent Dauvissat is one of the greatest vignerons in France, producing some of the most soulful wines not just in Chablis but across the entire Burgundy region…There is no grower in the region who has done a better job of retaining all of Chablis’s classical signatures, even in the warm, sunny vintages that are more present in the contemporary Chablis; these wines retain the tension and salinity one seeks, where many others produce more fruit-driven, even soft wines. There are few better illustrations of Chablis than these age-worthy, artisanal wines from one of the brightest lights of the region.” - 96 PTS., KRISTAPS KARKLINS, WINE ADVOCATE (01/2026)