Domaine William Fèvre Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos 2024

DON'T MISS! 95-98 POINTS - Allen Meadows - Burghound.com, Oct 2025
“Here the nose is restrained to the point of being almost mute with its airy and cool array of floral, spice, iodine, ocean breeze and similar oyster shell nuances. There is even better size, weight and richness to the even more evidently concentrated big-bodied flavors that possess a super-sleek and refined mouthfeel before concluding in a youthfully austere and balanced finish that just goes on and on. This is, quite simply, stunningly good.” Drink: 2036+

95 POINTS - Charles Curtis MW - Decanter, Sep 2025
“William Fèvre produced a compelling example of Les Clos in 2024 with great expense and effort, but the results are delicious, with fruit aromas of gooseberry, greengage plum and grapefruit peel, underscored by an expressive minerality. The texture has tension and snap, but there is enough density here to balance 2024’s racy acidity perfectly. The grapes are from more than 4ha of old vines planted in the 1940s at the top of the climat on marl soils. After sorting, the plots produced only 4 hl/ha.” Drink: 2035 - 2060

92-94 POINTS - Jasper Morris MW - Inside Burgundy, Jul 2025
“4 hl/ha. Fresh pale colour. Didier has managed to deliver a classic Clos quality on the nose, pure white fruit, then more than adequate tension on the palate, just a bit of citrus, racy at the finish, a bit of lemon meringue, long and fulfilling.” Drink: 2030 - 2036

91-93 POINTS - Neal Martin - Vinous, Jun 2025
“The 2024 Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru was reduced to four barrels from 3.5 hectares of vine. It has a fresh, sea spray-scented bouquet that just lacks the amplitude of a really great vintage, though this still has much to offer. The palate is well balanced with a citrus-fresh entry. It’s a little linear and chalky in style, with a twist of sour lemon and grapefruit toward the finish. Fine.” Drink: 2027 - 2042

Winery
Domaine William Fèvre is one of the benchmark estates of Chablis, with holdings concentrated across the appellation's Premier and Grand Cru climats on classic Kimmeridgian limestone and marl. Under winemaker Didier Séguier the domaine pursues purity and precision: fruit is hand-picked, strictly sorted and gently pressed, with a measured use of oak adding texture without masking the wines' mineral core.

Wine
Les Clos is the largest and most celebrated of the Chablis Grand Crus, and Fèvre's old vines, largely planted in the decade after the war, sit at the top of the climat on marl soils. After strict sorting the 2024 plots produced only 4 hl/ha, just four barrels, yet the wine has a remarkably complex bouquet of fruit, flowers and spice over a structured, deeply mineral palate.

Vintage Notes
2024 was a vintage that left a lasting impression. After a particularly mild February, March continued mild with very wet conditions. April brought two nights of frost and a first, minor episode of hail, before a very heavy hailstorm struck the Chablis vineyards on 1 May, severely affecting the left bank. May and June saw fluctuating temperatures that slowed flowering, while alternating rain and thunderstorms led to high mildew pressure. Hail struck again at the end of July, giving way to a drier and warmer August, and September began mildly, allowing the grapes to ripen. Harvest began on 20 September in good conditions, with a larger team of 220 pickers bringing everything in within three and a half days. The quality was there, but the succession of climatic hazards had a significant impact on volumes: the domaine's average yield after strict sorting was just 9 hl/ha, and many Grand Cru plots yielded only five to six.