Chablis alternatives: Assyrtiko from Santorini Other than that, dedicated Chablis customers often want to stick to alternative French wines, so very good Muscadet, Macon and Santenay can often work to fill the void. The one obvious option to replace Chablis with is Petit Chablis. There are alternatives, but the problem is that Chablis is such an iconic ‘brand’ many people are reluctant to consider alternatives. Pressure on pricing is acute with price increases ranging from 5% to 7% compared to 2015, which was already at a high level.Ĭan you suggest a handful of Chablis alternatives from your portfolio? The one alleviating factor is that many of our producers still have 2015 in good quantities, so we can continue supplying reasonable volumes and then go back to normal quantities in 2017. The barrel room of William Fevre in October 2016 – this is normally full of barrels. Have allocations from your suppliers shrunk or prices increased? The scale of the shortage. Another of our producers made a grand total of 60 hl of 2016 Chablis, so sold it as juice not making even one bottle of wine. To be organic in Chablis is quite a challenge in view of the cooler climate and damper conditions. One of our producers who makes organic wines found his 2017 yields cut to between 10 to 15 hl/ha, even lower than those of 2016 and found that the berries had very little juice when vinified– good for quality but a real struggle for volumes, with a resulting effect on prices. Have you found Chablis harder to source the past 12-18 months? JIM WILSON, PORTFOLIO DIRECTOR, HALLGARTEN, DRUITT & NOVUM Dedicated Chablis fans tend to want to stick to alternative French wines. Chablis from the top of Les Clos, one of the best Grand Cru sites, visited by The Buyer, October 2016 Hail and frost have been the biggest culprits with almost every wine producer reporting losses of half of their crop or more. Growing grapes in Chablis has always been notoriously difficult but few producers in this most Northern part of Burgundy have experienced the scale of the problem that has hit the past three vintages. Pushing Petit Chablis, suggesting similar styles of wine, and offering Chardonnay, both from other areas of Burgundy and beyond, are some of the many suggestions offered to help wine buyers find Chablis alternatives and prepare for the Chablis shortage that is about to hit.
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