Samuel Billaud, Chablis "Grand Terroir", 2024 CHAMPCOUNT010725 He has been on his

He has been on his own since 2009

until recently

and at well over fifteen years this Nebbiolo has reached a complex mature plateau with plenty of grip remaining

bone dry through the palate

not the winemaking

Samuel Billaud, Chablis "Grand Terroir", 2024 CHAMPCOUNT010725 He has been on hisThe name is not marketing: this village Chablis is assembled from parcels on both banks of the Serein Les Pargues over on the left bank, Chapelot on the right, the latter pressed up against Billaud's own grand cru plots beneath the hill. All of it sits on Kimmeridgian marl, the fossil packed ancient seabed that gives Chablis its salinity, and all of it stays in stainless steel on fine lees with no oak at any stage. Samuel Billaud left the family's