This wine is Produced by:- Gilles de la Tour. Never heard of him as a chablis producer ! Have you ? But that doesn't imply that the wine is poor. The 2008 vintage is pretty classic. At the cheap and discounted end, you rarely find what you'd call a ripe and full '08 chardonnay with minerality.

This wine is an online exclusive, I quite like it. It is lean and mean, and with attitude. Scheppes bitter lemon and Kiwi fruit - Ha ha. The wine has very little nose, except for the minerality which is quite high, and you almost feel you can smell the stone and mild steel. No oak. The flavour is wet pavements, and crushed portland stone plus gentle lemon and Bramley apple skins, and a good dollop graperfruit pith, which gives the twist as would the quinine in the scheppes BL.

The fruit is lean. Very lean, yet I like it, and of course the acidity is quite high. I shall have to see if it builds any weight overnight tomorrow. In the meantime, I'd say that the wine would be excellent with Breton rock oysters, winkles and clams and fresh crab. I also like the wine with quite strong hard cheese. Very light in texture, the citrus calms down when well aired in the glass, the minerality is very persistent

This is Tesco's TN -
Made from grapes grown exclusively in the southeast-facing Premier Cru vineyards of Vaillons, this magnificent wine has deliciously crisp, refreshing flavours of green apples combined with the steely, flinty notes characteristic of top quality Chablis

For this 1er cru and climat, the grapes grown on the south east facing side of the slopes of Vaillons are generally those that are harvested first.

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Duncan

The wine has more harmony and a drop more depth the next day. The grapefruit pith came-up a bit strong, minerality still very there - so yes, this wine is good value, with a posh label.

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Duncan

Bottle Variance ? Or ? This wine taken at cellar temperature tonight, a damn good way of determining what is going on.

The bottle I have infront of me tonight, yep, at the moment, the lean fruit is declining quite fast. The previous one was good and sound. If you are buying Chablis offers at the moment, and on the face of it - and - as you know with online offers, you are obliged to buy six, I am unable to recommend this wine.

I will report on the next one, next week I expect.

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Duncan

Well, It has been a while .....Not next week ! As I promised.

I revisited this wine on Saturday evening with a grilled Salmon tail, minimum intervention, as I want to taste the Salmon.

The wine was fine, perhaps not quite enough acidity for the salmon, and not quite bold enough either. Next day though, and with a very light starter, the wine was beautiful. Very light, clear and clean as in mountain stream over granite and flint rocks. Very fresh with great minerality, the grapefruit did not come-up too strong either.

There is bottle variance, but this one was very nice indeed, of the half case so far, One lovely bottle, One good bottle, and just one indifferent one.

Happy with this, and I'm sorry I could not advise chablis folks properly, before the offer expired.

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Duncan