CRITIC REVIEWS
William Kelley
The 2019 Chablis 1er Cru Séchet opens in the glass with scents of citrus oil, white flowers, beeswax, oyster shell, wet chalk and mandarin. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and strikingly intense, its taut and chiseled, with tangy acids and huge reserves of concentration, concluding with a pungently chalky finish. As Ive written before, Séchet—where Dauvissat owns a 0.8-hectare parcel—is located in the Vaillons Valley, but its windier situation and soils richer in active limestone mean its typically more tensile and incisive than the other climats that make up Vaillons.