Nous sommes très heureux et fiers de voir le Domaine Céline et Frédéric Gueguen cité dans The New French Wine, le livre de référence de Jon Bonné consacré aux nouvelles expressions du vignoble français.
Retrouvez l’article de Jon Bonné ci-dessous :
« While the Brocard family is among Chablis’ most influential, is an unexpected step forward-at least for one branch, namely Céline Gueguen, the daughter of patriarch Jean Marc. Having left her family’s business in 2013, she and her husband, Frédéric-who is also part of a wine family (Domaine Jean Durup)-set out on their own and assembled 23 hectares of vines; some were newly planted and others were rented, including from Céline’s mother. All the wines are fermented indigenously, go through malolactic, and remain in steel. « For me personally, I don’t like the taste of oak on Chablis, » Céline says. The wines are, if not yet at the topmost level, excellent examples of where Chablis is heading, reminiscent of the style of the long-lived Louis Michel wines.
Petit Chablis, from a parcel just northeast of Préhy, shows a darker mineral bite versus the classic bright flint of a village Chablis from Préhy and La Chapelle; the little-seen premier cru Vosgros, from Chichée, is quiet and weighted, with a juniper kick, while Vaucoupin is notably ripe. The grand cru Blanchot, if a work progress, shows grace and powerful ripe-apple fruit. The Gueguens also take great care with the region’s supporting cast: a Bourgogne Chardonnay Côtes Salines, planted on Kimmeridgian soil outside Préhy, features high-acid lemon zestiness; a forceful blood-orangey Bourgogne Rosé comes from pinot noir in Saint-Bris and Préhy; and an Irancy Les Mazelots is foresty and full of menthol and tart plum. »
