As is so typical in the cellars here, the 2023 Valmur is more reserved in personality today than the lovely Blanchot. With some coaxing in the glass, the wine opens up to reveal a bouquet of pink grapefruit, pear, lemon, a complex base of limestone minerality, citrus peel, spring flowers and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, precise and full-bodied, with a rock solid core of fruit, great acids and grip, laser-like focus and a very long, mineral-driven and seamlessly balanced finish.
96 points, John Gilman, View From The Cellar (Feb 2025)
The 2023 Chablis Valmur Grand Cru has an enticing bouquet with white tea and chamomile infusing its citrus fruit. This has superb mineralité that becomes more evident with aeration. The palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity. It's elegant and tender in style yet still powerful as it fans out on the finish. The tongue tingles on the aftertaste. Fantastique.
95 points, Neal Martin, Vinous (Jul 2025)
Seductive, silky and very fine, the Valmur has aromas of ripe apple, nectarine and fresh white blossoms with a suggestion of oyster shell. The palate has decidedly grand cru power and weight, but there is still a charming elegance. Compared to the other Raveneau grands crus, this has less power than Les Clos and less lemony mineral tension than Blanchot, but it has a charming finesse all its own and should continue to improve for decades to come. The grapes are from 0.70ha exposed due south in the centre of Valmur.
95 points, Charles Curtis, Decanter (May 2024)
This could be from nowhere else with its equally reticent nose of shellfish, quinine, pear, green apple and an abundance of citrus elements. There is excellent volume and outstanding richness to the dense, muscular and powerful broad-shouldered flavors that possess an agreeably dry, sappy and beautifully long finish that is borderline tannic. This is a very serious and powerful Valmur that is clearly built for longer-term cellaring. In a word, impressive.
95 points, Allen Meadows, Burghound (Oct 2025)
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