The 2014 Chablis 1er Cru Montée de Tonnerre confirms its status as one of Raveneau's best renditions of this site over the last two decades, unfurling in the glass with a textbook bouquet of lemon oil, crisp green orchard fruit, oyster shell and anise, framed by light reduction that dissipates in the glass. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, elegantly glossy and seamlessly layered, with excellent concentration and tension at the core, concluding with a long, precise and penetrating finish. This wine is evolving at a glacial pace and is still far from reach its peak, but its quality is impossible to miss.

The 2014 Chablis Montée de Tonnerre 1er Cru is a quite brilliant wine. It has a taut, mean and tensile bouquet that, to quote Isabelle Raveneau herself, is "_vrai Chablis". The palate is very firm, sapid, with excellent depth and beautifully poised finish, struck flint lingering on the aftertaste. Grand Cru in all but name? Hey, just lose that question mark...

I am surprised to see the the 2014 Chablis Montée de Tonnerre 1er Cru from Raveneau so open and expressive. Usually a much steelier, tightly wound wine, especially in its youth, the 2014 is wonderfully expressive, with a good bit of mid-palate richness and depth to play off the more seashell/mineral-drenched notes are so typical. Raveneau’s Montée de Tonnerre is one of my favorite wines from any region. On this night it dazzles.

This is even more elegant and more refined still with its strikingly layered nose that once again is cool, pure and airy with its floral-suffused nose that possesses a plethora of classic Chablis scents along with discreet wood nuances. There is an absolutely gorgeous mouth feel to the medium-bodied flavors that exude a fine bead of minerality on the explosively long, saline and impeccably well-balanced finale. 2014 is potentially a genuinely great vintage for the Raveneau Montée de Tonnerre, which as fans of this wine will immediately understand, is really saying something. - October 2016

Bright lemon-yellow. Lemon and white peach aromas are complicated by a suggestion of toasted bread. Sharply delineated and brisk but not hard or austere in the mouth, showing terrific citrus and mineral energy and captivating inner-mouth perfume. The compellingly floral finish mounts slowly and builds, without losing its tension or shape. This is really shockingly expressive today, whereas the Vaillons is tight and tough.