Gautheron Chablis 1er Cru Mont de Milieu 2023 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Brilliantly clear

Brilliantly clear

the house sources exclusively from the Grand Cru villages of Mesnil and Oger

the château itself recommends pairing the reds with fowl

A Burgundy quirk worth knowing: Les Santenots-du-Milieu sits inside the commune of Meursault

The wine that comes off it is all tension and line — taut

Gautheron Chablis 1er Cru Mont de Milieu 2023 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Brilliantly clearDomaine Gautheron sits in the village of Fleys just east of Chablis, where seven generations of the family have farmed a tight 25 hectare estate. Mont de Milieu is one of the great right bank 1er Crus, a steep south southeast facing slope of Kimmeridgian limestone that shares its hillside neighborhood with the Grand Crus across the Serein. Whole cluster pressed and slow fermented, this is classical right bank Chablis: powerful and racy, with the