Louis Jadot Chablis 2023
This Chablis is said to smell of dung, but to me, with a palate hardened by natural wine, it did not. What it did have was an artificial herbal note.
Region: Bourgogne · Type: White · Vintage: 2023 · Producer: Louis Jadot · Grape: Chardonnay
Tasted 2026-03-13
In the glass
The smell of dung this wine is said to have was not there for me. A palate hardened by natural wine does not pick it up that way. There is an artificial herbal note.
Producer
Louis Henri Denis Jadot founded the house in 1859. In 1954 André Gagey joined Maison Louis Jadot as deputy to Louis Auguste Jadot, and the Maison has since been run by three generations of the Gagey family: André, his son Pierre-Henry Gagey, and a grandson who joined in 2014.
Site
Chablis is in the northern part of Bourgogne, half way between Dijon and Paris. The soil there is called Kimmeridgian, a limestone soil mixed with the fossils of sea creatures from millions of years ago. The climate is continental, with spring frosts.
Vinification
Fermentation and ageing both take place in stainless steel tanks, and no oak barrels are used, so as to keep the fruit and freshness. The wine spends 9 to 12 months in tank before bottling. Louis Jadot buys no wine from other producers, neither bulk wine nor finished wine. It buys only grapes whose growing it has supervised and whose quality it has checked, and makes all of its wines in its own winery.