Gautheron Chablis 1er Cru Mont de Milieu 2023 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine with the backbone coming from

with the backbone coming from an old Beltza vineyard planted in 1840 and kept alive by the family for generations

with a dusty old oak cask quality

A Burgundy quirk worth knowing: Les Santenots-du-Milieu sits inside the commune of Meursault

the château itself recommends pairing the reds with fowl

Brilliantly clear

Gautheron Chablis 1er Cru Mont de Milieu 2023 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine with the backbone coming fromDomaine Gautheron sits in the village of Fleys just east of Chablis, where seven generations of the family have farmed a tight 25 hectare estate. Mont de Milieu is one of the great right bank 1er Crus, a steep south southeast facing slope of Kimmeridgian limestone that shares its hillside neighborhood with the Grand Crus across the Serein. Whole cluster pressed and slow fermented, this is classical right bank Chablis: powerful and racy, with the