Billaud-Simon Montée de Tonnerre Chablis 1er Cru 2011

Billaud-Simon's 2011 Chablis Montee de Tonnerre - from vines principally in Chapelot, and some third of which are among the domaine's oldest, planted in 1935 - delivers sweetly-ripe pear, kiwi and grapefruit sizzlingly tinged with white pepper, radish and lemon zest, and imbued with a sense of chalk dust suffusion and illusive kelp and seaweed. There is so much going on in this densely packed bottling that you almost want to spread it more thinly to get a better view, which is not something I would say about many other wines of this vintage. I suspect that this one may well gain stature in bottle and will certainly be worth following through at least 2018. Score - 92. (David Schildknecht, erobertparker.com, Aug. 2013)