The Winery Jean-Claude Bessin of Chablis of Burgundy

Winery Jean-Claude Bessin - Chablis
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 102 of the estates of Burgundy.
It is located in Chablis in the region of Burgundy

The Winery Jean-Claude Bessin is one of the best wineries to follow in Chablis.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Chablis to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Jean-Claude Bessin wines

Looking for the best Winery Jean-Claude Bessin wines in Chablis among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Jean-Claude Bessin wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Jean-Claude Bessin wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Jean-Claude Bessin

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Jean-Claude Bessin

How Winery Jean-Claude Bessin wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of baked dumplings, italian tabbouleh or chinese noodles with shrimp.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Jean-Claude Bessin

On the nose the white wine of Winery Jean-Claude Bessin. often reveals types of flavors of minerality, non oak or slate and sometimes also flavors of jasmine, grapefruit or butter. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Jean-Claude Bessin. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Jean-Claude Bessin

  • 2016With an average score of 4.11/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.07/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.07/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.05/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.93/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.91/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Jean-Claude Bessin.

  • Chardonnay

Discovering the wine region of Chablis

Chablis is a historic town and wine region in NorthCentralFrance. It produces light, Dry white wines, renowned for their minerality and lively Acidity. AOC Chablis wines are produced exclusively from the Chardonnay grape. The wines of Chablis are made in a rather different style from those produced elsewhere in Burgundy.

They are drier and fresher, rather than heavier and more Aromatic. Most basic Chablis is fermented and aged in stainless steel, with the use of oak barrels being more common for the top wines, although large used barrels are more likely to be used than New ones, and the wines spend less time in them than in Côte d'Or. The town and its vineyards are located a considerable distance (over 100 kilometers) northwest of the main wine regions of Burgundy, from the Côte de Nuits to the Maconnais. They are actually closer to Sancerre (Loire) and Les Riceys (southern Champagne) and to the city of Paris.

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Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Jean-Claude Bessin and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Hitting the right note

Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...

Chablis takes pride in its subsoil by Ivy NG

On December 10, 2020, four Hong Kong personalities discussed Chablis wines on a live webinar: Yang LU, Master Sommelier and Official Bourgogne Wines Ambassador, Debra MEIBURG, Master of Wine, Ivy NG, Official Bourgogne Wines Ambassador and Rebecca LEUNG, wine expert. In this two-and-a-half-minute clip, Yvy NG describes the unique subsoil that Chablis is so proud of. ...

The word of the wine: Baco 22A

A white grape variety resulting from the hybridization of the folle blanche and the noah. It is the only hybrid to remain authorized in a French appellation vineyard, that of Armagnac, where it thrives in particular on the tawny sands of Bas-Armagnac. When distilled, its wine produces round, smooth and aromatic eaux-de-vie with hints of ripe fruit.