Domaine Pattes Loup, Chablis Premier Cru, Butteaux Mise Tardive 2017

Description

Thomas Pico started Pattes Loup in 2004. In an appellation where an overuse of herbicides and pesticides is unfortunately still the norm, Pattes Loup and its fastidiously tended low-yielding vines, happily living among a wide array of wildflowers and plants, feels like a world apart.The wines undergo a long, slow ageing of between 12 to 30 months, depending on vintage and cuvée, before bottling. The later bottlings of Butteaux and Chablis Vent d’Ange spend a year in used oak fut and two years in tank. These are brilliant wines of texture, nuance, vibrancy and purity, quite unlike anything else in Chablis.