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Domaine Raveneau

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I have been very fortunate to visit Domaine Raveneau in Rue de Chichee at the number 9 in Chablis. To welcome us was Messier Raveneau and his daughter Isabelle. Was an outstanding experience quite unforgettable. We tasted through the 2014 vintage from barrel from chablis AC and a good extensive tasting on the premier cru. Raveneau work quite traditionally hand picking, malolactic is always done but not forced, elevage in old barrel 228hl and some Feuilletes half size of a barrel, which in chablis is the measure to sell wine in a negociant market. From 2014 we tasted the lieu dit FORET and BUTTEAUX from the hill of Montmains premier cru. Both very tight and full of energy show some kerosene character which Isabelle told us, great acidity and champignon mushroom hints. Then the surprise come from the Monte de Tonnere vineyard the 2014 was showing and acting as a grand cru, very closed with an acid structure high but balanced from the malo which give the smoothness and the le