Like Montée de Tonnerre, Vaulorent is a brilliantly situated right bank premier cru, picking up the relay where the grands crus of Les Preuses and Bougros ease off. In this warmer vintage, you'll find oranges among the lemons in this wine’s enticing and already articulate scents. The flavour is lavish, rounded and rich by comparison with the more classical 2016s: almond paste, seaweed and spring flowers. Best kept for a little longer, but it’s by no means forbidding if broached soon.

(BH90-92 points) Like the Montée de Tonnerre there is plenty of mineral reduction present on the fresh nose of tidal pool, pear and floral scents. The textured, powerful and solidly intense flavors possess good size and weight before concluding in a lemony and impressively persistent if slightly less complex finale. This should reward a few years of aging yet be accessible in its youth.

The 2015 Chablis 1Er Cru Vaulorent showed so well when I tasted it from barrel. Now in bottle, it has a well-defined bouquet with hints of white flower developing in the glass. The palate is well balanced with a fine line of acidity. A very pretty Chablis with hints of orange sorbet and dried apricot leading to a precise and classy finish. What a superb Vaulorent—this comes recommended. - Neal Martin