Louis Michel

This is a strong collection of 2018s and 2017s from Louis Michel. The wines are done with spontaneous fermentations. As always, vinification and aging is done entirely in steel, a choice made to exalt the personality of each site. It’s hard to argue with that. Even in 2018, the wines are delineated and differentiated. Readers will find plenty of highlights. ANTONIO GALLONI, Vinous

Today, Guillaume Michel presides over this important 22-hectare estate, which has long been the reference for tank-fermented and matured Chablis, a style that the Michel family did much to popularize in the 1980s. Intense and tensile wines are the calling card here, pure and unadorned by style and consistently high in quality. Indeed, I sometimes think that Louis Michel is the most underrated of Chablis's great domaines. Certainly, prices remain very reasonable. As usual, certain cuvées stand out—at the premier cru level, the old vine Butteaux, the Fourchaume (from Vaulorent) and the Séchet, Montée de Tonnerre having taken a beating in recent vintages—but the overall standard, even for the lower appellations, is regular and high. They come warmly recommended, and their 2018 collection shows plenty of promise. WILLIAM KELLEY, Wine Advocate