Samuel Billaud, Chablis 1er Cru Sechet Vieilles Vignes, 2024 GIRBONCHAMP who has dug over 1

who has dug over 1

and the Cuvée des Commandeurs is a step up in elegance and complexity from its everyday bottlings

but with a deep mineral core that gives it real gravitas

This midslope

Samuel Billaud, Chablis 1er Cru Sechet Vieilles Vignes, 2024 GIRBONCHAMP who has dug over 1Sechet earns its name. It is a dry, poor pocket inside the Vaillons group on the left bank where the Kimmeridgian marls thin out and give way to white clay, and the setting is naturally cold, so ripening slows to a crawl. What comes out is stony and incisive, with the kind of freshness that holds for a decade or more in bottle and Billaud's parcel here is family ground, planted by his great grandfather, which is what the Vieilles Vignes on the label