Domaine Passy Le Clou Petit Chablis 2023 Author DK and this Napa Valley Cabernet

and this Napa Valley Cabernet remains the house's calling card: classically proportioned

saline edge backed by fine spiciness—laser-focused Riesling from an organic

The 2021 employs 100% whole-cluster fermentation

10% Grolleau blend ferments spontaneously in concrete with indigenous yeasts

Domaine Passy Le Clou Petit Chablis 2023 Author DK and this Napa Valley CabernetPetit Chablis is the appellation's freshest, most pour it cold expression, and Passy le Clou's version is a benchmark. The Descombes family farms two hectares for this cuve in a slightly cooler corner of Chablis, on Portlandian limestone (a touch younger and fruitier than the Kimmeridgian soils that produce the Grands and Premiers Crus). The vines are young, the wine is bottled bright and unforced, and the result is exactly what an apritif Chardonnay