Recent Chablis vintages

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Perhaps it is appropriate on the day I'm publishing a report of a field trip to Bordeaux last week with the Royal Household Wine Committee to publish some tasting notes from one of the regular blind tastings we hold in Buckingham Palace cellars to choose wines to be served above stairs. 

The majority of the notes below were taken – as usual in a hurry because my fellow tasters just mark the wines with a tick and a cross – while tasting the 20 various Chablis that had been submitted by approved suppliers, most but not all of them holders...