CHABLIS 2019
umming up 2019, Louis Moreau, president of the Chablis Commission of the Burgundy wine board (BIVB), said: ‘We have been able to produce a top-quality vintage.’ After recently tasting 225 samples that were shipped to London especially for Decanter, my take is that 2019 is a fine year for Chablis, and that lovers of the wines from this cool northern outpost of Burgundy can buy with confidence.
In broad terms, it can be viewed as a ‘halfway house’ between the higher acidity levels seen in 2017 and the ripe, rounded, less acidic 2018s. But this is an over-simplification – 2019 Chablis is a very complex year as a result of varied climatic factors affecting this marginal wine-producing region.
Chablis has endured some challenging times during the past
