Jean Marc Brocard Chablis Offering - The Perfect Wine for Summer!
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Thursday, June 27, 2024 - 6:00 PM
HAPPY HOUR WINE TASTING FEATURING THE OREGON WINES OF LINGUA FRANCA. One of the best regions for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the world is the Willamette Valley. We have on e of the great small producers in town this evening and these Lingua Franca wines were started by Master Sommelier Larry Stone. Check out the line-up at: https://www.winewatch.com/wine-events-d6/happy-hour-wine-tasting-featuring-the-oregon-wines-of-lingua-franca-e3471/
Friday, June 28, 2024 - 7:30 PM
VINTAGE SPANISH WINE TASTING BACK TO 1972. This is one of those “Once in a lifetime” wine tastings that we host just because we have the wines! When we received a cellar containing the 1972 Vega Sicilia Unico I immediately set a bottle aside to do some serious scientific research with vintage Spanish wines. Check out the line-up and menu at: https://www.winewatch.com/wine-events-d6/june-events-c60/vintage-spanish-wine-tasting-back-to-1972-e3465/
Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 7:30 PM
1990 VINTAGE BORDEAUX WINE TASTING. The new GOAT when it comes to vintages that are drinking at their peak today from Bordeaux. We have some of the top wines from this outstanding vintage on the table this Saturday night. Check out the line-up at: https://www.winewatch.com/wine-events-d6/june-events-c60/1990-vintage-bordeaux-wine-tasting-e3425/
We have three great events coming up this week and we have seats available for both Thursday and Friday nights tastings. The Wine Cave is also available this Thursday, Friday and Saturday night for a private dinner. Contact Toni@winewatch.com to check out this week’s menu options for a private dining experience at Wine Watch.
We will take up to 16 people but will accept as few as 6 for a curated dinner by Chef Toni. We must know in advance what food items you want so you will have to coordinate the menu with Toni ahead of time but she can put together any of your favorites from past Wine Bar menus or whatever you want if she has enough notice. The best thing about this table is the view of the wine, we have the largest selection of vintage wine in South Florida and everything is available at a retail price!! You may want to bring a sweater it is 64 degrees in the wine cave.
One of the best wines for the summertime is Chablis and we have a great selection of Chablis from one of our favorite producers in stock. Chablis is the northern most region of Burgundy in France and it is the only place you can find grand cru wines that are under $100 a bottle.
Jean Marc Brocard Chablis
Jean-Marc Brocard's origins lie in the Côte d'Or. But he was born a farmer's son from the village of Chaudenay-le-Château, and trained as an agricultural engineer, along the way designing and trademarking a trailer attachment. It was an accident of marriage that brought him to wine: he married Claudine (his childhood sweetheart), a vigneron's daughter from the village of St-Bris-le-Vineux in the valley of L’ Yonne. Starting with a hectare of vines from his father-in-law, Emile Petit in 1973.
With much hard work he now has control of about 180 hectares, part of which is 'en fermage' (25-year rental agreements). Brocard has gradually become one of the leading lights of Chablis and has been supplying The Society for many years with many wines including The Society’s Chablis and Exhibition Chablis Premier Cru. Despite being a very good businessman, this self-made man also has a great feel and intuitive understanding for the land, in which he was greatly influenced by a friend and mentor called Petit Louis, and has a profound, almost spiritual, belief in how to look after it and allow the terroir to express itself.
Since 2012 Jean-Marc has handed over day-to-day control of the vineyards and business to his son Julien, who earned his stripes after successfully trialling biodynamic viticulture in the Boissonneuse vineyard, producing wonderful wine from this vineyard. He is now converting all the vineyards of the estate to this method of cultivation. They produce wine from their own vineyards, some 'en fermage' as well as from bought-in grapes.
The house style has been for maturation in stainless steel as the delicate aromas of Chablis are easily masked by barrels less than four years old. The winery itself is extremely impressive; built in stages from 1980, it houses stainless steel temperature-controlled fermentation vats to accentuate the purity and freshness of the wines. But they have had great success with foudres (large oak barrels) for certain wines, such as Les Clos and are trialling concrete 'egg'-shaped vats.
After years of experimentation, all wines will be bottled with Diam corks or screw caps from the 2012 vintage onwards. These closures best protect the wine during its maturation in bottle. The Brocard range of Chablis to be found in these tanks includes a Vieilles Vignes cuvée which is often exceptional, and the aforementioned La Boissoneuse. Premier Cru examples include Vaucoupin, Vaulorent and Mont de Milieu while the grands crus include Les Clos and Valmur.
All the Jean Marc Broucard Chablis in the store on SALE!!
2022 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS VALMUR GRAND CRU
Price: $105.00 Your Price: $92.40
(95 points) Very appealing, with a fine balance of richness and ripeness of fruit, combined with white pepper, saline minerals and plenty of freshening acidity. A very classy example. Andy Howard, Decanter (Oct 2023)
2022 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS FOURCHAUME 1ER CRU
Price: $55.00 Your Price: $48.40
(92 Points) There is a fresh lime note in the otherwise pale colour. A lighter nose than some, less intensively Chablis, then a very fresh attack. The 2022 Brocard Fourchaume is no more than medium bodied, quite incisive, with medium concentration. Jasper Morris
2022 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS VAU DE VEY 1ER CRU
Price: $52.50 Your Price: $46.20 Quantity in Stock: 11
(92 Points) The 2022 Chablis Vau de Vey 1er Cru has a nicely detailed bouquet of wet stone intermixed with subtle orchard fruit aromas. It takes a few swirls of the glass to find its groove. The palate is fresh and saline on the entry, with modest depth and hints of orange rind and sea salt towards the finish. This bides its time, unfurling with each swirl but retaining control on the finish. Vinous
2022 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS VAULORENT 1ER CRU
Price: $60.00 Your Price: $52.80
Winemaker Notes: Aromatically the wine is perfumed with fresh stone fruits such as apricots, peaches, yellow apples, as well as lemon zest and a touch of clotted cream. On the palate the wine is much more creamy and full-bodied, drinking beautifully upon release and predicted to age wonderfully.
2022 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS MONTMAINS 1ER CRU
Price: $59.00 Your Price: $51.92 Quantity in Stock: 9
(92 Points) The 2022 Chablis Montmains 1er Cru, aged half in foudres and half in stainless steel, has another quite backward nose with touches of nettle and asparagus, hints of orange rind emerging with time in the glass. The palate is fresh on the entry, taut and linear, unashamedly malic and appley in style with a strict, almost terse finish. Fine. Vinous
2022 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS VIEILLES VIGNES DE SAINTE CLAIRE
Price: $34.50 Your Price: $30.36 Quantity in Stock: 16
Aromatically the wine is full of yellow fruits, such as lemon and crunchy apples, mango, and a hint of salty air. On the palate, the wine is a touch oily, with notes of marzipan, crushed rocks and delicate lemon curd.
2022 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS PETIT CHABLIS
Price: $29.75 Your Price: $26.18
Aromatically the wine is citrus fruit-forward, with notes of fresh lime juice and grapefruit, as well as notes of passion fruit. On the palate, the wine is brightly acid, with classic flavors of chalky rock and a hint of salinity.
2021 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS VALMUR GRAND CRU
Price: $90.00 Your Price: $79.20
(93 points) Layered and mineral, the 2021 Chablis Grand Cru Valmur unwinds in the glass with aromas of orange oil, pear, white flowers, iodine and clear honey. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered, it's deep and electric, concluding with a long, saline finish. As I've written before, Benoît Droin's immensely dependable wines are among the most consistent in the region, and to my palate, the combination of Diam closures and élevages employing recently used and, indeed, occasionally new wood (though only up to 10%) means that these wines need a few years in bottle to show their best. But everything invariably comes together to impressive effect, and the wines age very gracefully indeed. Farming is conventional at this 26-hectare domaine, but the soils are cultivated mechanically, and synthetic treatments are kept to a minimum. Harvest is early and is partially mechanized, followed by fermentation and élevage in stainless steel and wood, with the proportions varying according to the cuvée. In 2021, Droin opted to pick quite early, all in one go, and reported good sanitary conditions for the year, with the wines reminding him of a rather richer, fleshier version of 2007. (WK) (9/2023) Wine Advocate
2021 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS BOUGROS GRAND CRU
Price: $109.00 Your Price: $95.92
(92 Points) The 2021 Chablis Bougros Grand Cru has an attractive bouquet with scents of honeysuckle, struck flint and light wild peach scents. I admire the purity here. The palate is well balanced with fine acidity, quite taut on the entry with modest depth. There is a sense of strictness on the finish in keeping with the style of the millesime, though there is fine length and a touch of residual spiciness that lingers on the aftertaste. Vinous
2021 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS MONTEE DE TONNERRE 1ER CRU
Price: $65.00 Your Price: $57.20
(93 points) Intriguing smoky character on the nose, Brocard's Montée de Tonnerre captures the essence of this top premier cru. Compact and concentrated on the palate, there is a fine combination of white flowers on the nose, stone fruit on the palate, powerful acidity and minerality. This really needs two to three years in bottle before broaching.(AH) (10/2022) Decanter
2020 JEAN MARC BROCARD LES CLOS CHABLIS GRAND CRU BURGUNDY
Price: $114.00 Your Price: $100.32 Quantity in Stock: 10
Les Clos, which is the cradle of Chablis vineyards, is the largest of the Grands Crus. Due to its open Southern exposure, this terroir yields generous wines, which are full bodied and with a very long finish and notes of lemon, vanilla and salt. It is characterized by its smoothness with elegance.
2020 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS BLANCHOTS GRAND CRU
Price: $127.50 Your Price: $112.20 Quantity in Stock: 14
The Grand Cru Blanchots takes root on a very steep slope, catching the early morning sun (Southeastern exposure): a unique characteristic which results in a powerful wine with an equally unique attack on the palate. A very mineral style in the end of mouth. A beautifully harmonious wine.
Buttered, toasted, and salt on the palate. A floral, fine wine with good density and persistence in the mouth.
2020 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS LES PREUSES GRAND CRU
Price: $109.00 Your Price: $95.92
This Grand Cru has rather exceptional capacities of ageing. Very Chablis, with a very well – marked minerality, it imposes the respect. Powerful, bruter, very rich and very fine, it is different to the other Grands Crus. In mouth, it is supple, full – bodied, round, very elegant, with a magnificent revival in the finish : the sensual delight.
2020 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS VAULORENT 1ER CRU
Price: $66.00 Your Price: $58.08 Quantity in Stock: 14
(94 Points) Bristling lemon and tart nectarine flavors are center stage in this fresh-fruited, youthful Chablis sourced from a premier cru site just outside the grand cru Les Preuses. Accented by hints of crushed almonds and a lingering tang of limestone, it's a rejuvenating white. Wine Enthusiast
2019 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS MONTEE DE TONNERRE 1ER CRU MAGNUM
Price: $125.00 Your Price: $110.00
(97 Points) A Lucid, Well Honed And Delicate Example With Notes Of Lemon, Clementine, Cantaloupe Melon And Hints Of Smoky Notes And Toasty Nuances. Richly Defined Fruit With A Lovely Minerality And Tension. *Decanter World Wine Awards 2021 Platinum Award!*(7/2021) Decanter
2018 JEAN MARC BROCARD CHABLIS MONTEE DE TONNERRE 1ER CRU MAGNUM
Price: $112.50 Your Price: $99.00 Quantity in Stock: 4
(96 Points) Did organic viticulture enable the Brocards to deal with the heat of the 2018 vintage? There's certainly no sign of stress or over-ripeness in this beautifully weighted foudre- and stainless steel-fermented Right Bank premier cru, the best of the vintage. Sappy, elegant and refined with a hint of wood spice and a fresh, racy, classically Chablisien finish. The L'Homme Mort 1er Cru scored 95. Decanter
A bit about Chablis
Chablis is the northernmost region of the Burgundy appellation. The wines coming from this region are 95% white and most of that is Chardonnay. The wines have crisp, racy acidity, and very lean and sometimes tart fruit. Crisp and lean in style rather than big and fat like the wines of the Côte d’Or, the wines of the northern most region in Burgundy are unique and stylistically diverse enough to be mistaken for a sauvignon blanc. The Grand Cru and Premier Cru terroir here is limestoney-chalk, they have more in common with Champagne than the clayey soil of the Cote d‘Beaune. The only grape permitted here is Chardonnay, locally known as Beaunois. It must have a minimum alcohol content of 10%, from a yield of 50hl/ha, about 4 tons per acre. The village wines are not “keepers”, they should be consumed within the first few years, the Premier and Grand Crus, however, can be some of the longest lived wines of this varietal from anywhere in the world.
The Chablis region covers four different appellations – Petit Chablis, Chablis, Chablis Premier Cru and Chablis Grand Cru. Despite the world renown recognition of the Chablis name, the post-war lack of workforce, a weak demand and some poor vintages culminated with the disastrous frost of 1956, when the locals were skiing down the what is now the Grand Cru of “Les Clos” in February. The region was facing extinction. Replanting began on the finer slopes and has continued to expand rapidly during the last two decades. Although further expansion is possible, the true quality of Chablis comes as much from limestoney chalk soil known as Kimmeridgian after the Dorset village of Kimmeridge, as from the Chardonnay grape. One school of thought is in favor of expansion, maintaining that the world-wide demand for Chablis is inexhaustible; the other argues that true Chablis is from that chalky soil and that expansion outside the geographical region should be resisted. A run of good, productive vintages in the 1980’s have served to enhance the quality image of Chablis again as we slowly begin to forget the jug wines labeled Chablis from large California producers who should remain nameless. Today the best wines of the region of Chablis are starting to make it back into the cellars of wine collectors. Check out these last few release from Chablis they will benefit from a few more years in the cellar and develop into something like these 2011’s in time.
The rest of the Chablis in the store on SALE!
2022 DOMAINE DES MALANDES CHABLIS
Price: $30.50 Your Price: $26.84 Quantity in Stock: 13
2022 DOMAINE DES MALANDES CHABLIS FOURCHAUME 1ER CRU
Price: $45.00 Your Price: $39.60 Quantity in Stock: 3
2022 DOMAINE DES MALANDES CHABLIS 1ER CRU MONTMAINS
Price: $55.00 Your Price: $48.40 Quantity in Stock: 3
2022 DOMAINE DES MALANDES CHABLIS VAUDESIR GRAND CRU
Price: $100.50 Your Price: $88.44 Quantity in Stock: 12
2022 DOMAINE BEGUE MATHIOT VAILLONSD CHABLIS BURGUNDY, FRANCE
Price: $42.00 Your Price: $36.96 Quantity in Stock: 2
2021 DOMAINE SEGUINOT BORDET CHABLIS
Price: $27.50 Your Price: $24.20 Quantity in Stock: 5
2021 DOMAINE TESTUT MONTEE DE TONNERRE 1ER CHABLIS BURGUNDY, FRANCE
Price: $63.00 Your Price: $55.44 Quantity in Stock: 6
2020 DOMAINE SERVIN CHABLIS GRAND CRU BOUGEROTS
Price: $90.00 Your Price: $79.20 Quantity in Stock: 3
2020 SEGUINOT BORDET CHABLIS LES PREUSES GRAND CRU
Price: $90.00 Your Price: $79.20 Quantity in Stock: 4
2016 DOMAINE WILLIAM FEVRE LES PREUSES CHABLIS GRAND CRU MAGNUM
Price: $295.00 Your Price: $259.60 Quantity in Stock: 1
2002 DOMAINE ROLAND LAVANTUREUX CHABLIS
Price: $45.00 Your Price: $39.60 Quantity in Stock: 6
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