Domaine des Malandes
Chablis
Pre-Arrival (arriving October 2010)

Domaine des Malandes, composed of 25 hectares in Chablis, was founded in 1986 and is directed by Lyne Marchive.  Two years ago, winemaker Guénolé Breteaudeau joined the Domaine to help vinify the 2006 vintage. In describing their 2008 vintage, Breteaideau commented that it "was a challenging vintage but one that in the end gave us clean fruit, good sugars, excellent acids and concentrated musts … There is plenty of classic Chablis character for the purists to enjoy and because of the mid-palate fat, people who just want a fine white burgundy will also find much to admire." Burghound, October 2009


2008 Domaine des Malandes, Chablis 1er Cru Fourchaume Vieilles Vignes
89-92, Burghound

“A ripe, pure and layered green fruit and acacia blossom nose is trimmed in notes of pain grillé and iodine that continue onto the lemony middle weight flavors that possess fine mid-palate fat that buffers the moderately firm acid spine on the racy, precise and lingering finish. Very solid quality here.”  Burghound, October 2009

“This is easily the most elegant and refined wine to this point with ultra pure floral and white pear aromas preceding stony and chalky medium-bodied flavors that offer up notes of oyster shell on the attractively sappy and persistent finish. This is really quite pretty.” Burghound, October 2009

“Here the wood is more evident though not actually intrusive with lightly spiced white flower, peach and pear aromas that are in keeping with the rich, minerally and relatively powerful yet precise flavors that deliver excellent finishing length. Despite the muscled mid-palate, the finish is more on the side of finesse than volume.”  Burghound, October 2009

“Very generous wood where vanilla and oak spice notes presently dominate the otherwise fresh white flower nose that is followed by rich and notably powerful big-bodied flavors that ooze a fine minerality onto the palate along with plenty of dry extract, all wrapped in a superbly complex and lingering finish . . .”  Burghound, October 2009