Raveneau, Chablis 1er Cru Butteaux, 2023

François Raveneau’s sons Bernard and Jean-Marie command eight hectares of Chablis’s finest sites—three Grand Crus and six Premier Crus scattered across the region’s Kimmeridgian landscape. Butteaux, among the highest of their holdings, sits on shallow marly limestone with blue clay, south and east-facing for ripeness, windswept for freshness. The wine tastes of flint and tension, strength without heaviness. In 2023—a warm, approachable vintage that Isabelle Raveneau calls a ‘party wine’—Butteaux still demands patience, rewarding cellaring with mineral intensity.