Gilbert Picq, Chablis Dessus la Carriere, 2024 so032425 produttori 2020s cru offer and nervy energy rather than

and nervy energy rather than mass — and Canalicchio di Sopra is a perfect address to taste that style from

A dozen-plus years on

named in tribute to the home winemakers of Vila Alva who kept making wine in their own small clay pots

Les Suchots is one of Vosne-Romanée's most coveted premier crus

Gilbert Picq, Chablis Dessus la Carriere, 2024 so032425 produttori 2020s cru offer and nervy energy rather thanDessus la Carrire means "above the quarry," which is exactly where these vines grow: steep limestone bluffs above an old stone quarry outside Chablis, from the lieux dits Semon and Paradis, the vines planted directly on the rock. It is technically village Chablis, but there is so much Kimmeridgian limestone under it that the wine drinks like a serious premier cru which is why we chase it down every year. Gilbert Picq's three children run the domaine