Allen Meadow 91

This also exhibits generous wood and a more subtle touch of vanilla on the very ripe but not really exotic menthol and citrus-suffused aromas that are similar if a bit more floral in character. The finer if less powerful middle weight flavors exude fine minerality on the compact and impressively long if noticeably warm finale. This lovely effort does need to develop better depth and it's presently a bit woody but the potential is clearly present.
 
Antoine Vincent recounted that the 2023 growing season "began in an almost leisurely fashion with just enough heat and rain to wake the vines up and get them moving as it were. While there was some early oidium and mildew pressures, on the plus side the flowering was completed both rapidly and uniformly along with a generous fruit set. The rest of the season was an alternating pattern of heat and rainstorms, some of them quite violent and especially the one that hit the night of the 11th of July. If we again focus on the positives though, the ample rain aided the vines in largely avoiding any significant hydric stress though there was some in a few of our parcels that shed water quickly. Ultimately we began picking on the 5th of September with our young vines in St. Véran and then continued with those parcels that are the most precocious in Chaintré and Fuissé while finally concluding on the 17th. Yields for the chardonnay came in between 55 and 60 hl/ha with perfect potential alcohols that ranged from 12 to 13%.