Domaine Costal / Henri Costal is a unique collaboration between the well-known Chablis producer Domaine Jean Collet and Kermit Lynch. The project began with a simple barrel tasting with Kermit and led to a custom label, custom vinification, and bottling process exclusively for the American market. The end result of this first tasting was a terroir-driven Chablis from a single vineyard site called Truffières, loosely translated as “site where truffles grow.” In 2018, owner Romain Collet was digging through his family’s archives and found the original label that his great-grandfather, Henri Costal designed and used when he founded the domaine. Romain proposed that we revive this historical label and use the Henri Costal name. In keeping with our desire to preserve historical European wine styles as well as labels, this was a natural fit. Beginning with the 2017 vintage, all wines from our collaboration with the Collet’s will be labeled as Henri Costal.
Wine making process :
Pneumatic Press. Cold settling at 16°C Spontaneous alcoholic fermentation. As always, following the spirit of our Chablis tradition, “Les Truffières” is matured and vinified, in the most natural way possible, and held in stainless steel vats. The bottling is done after 14 months of ageing, without fining or filtering.
Tasting :
Pale lemon with the faintest of green tints. Rather a classy nose here, elegance, lemon peel and minerals. The lively citrus notes continue on the palate and there is a good sense of tension. Elegant rather than full bodied. This Chablis is ideal as an aperitif and also excellent with dishes of fish, and cooked meats.