Chapoutier 2015 Sélections Parcellaires

This year I was unable to attend on the day that Michel Chapoutier rolled into town and opined to a roomful of tasters of his latest single-vineyard bottlings (see my report on the 2014s and 2013s, for example). The result was that I had to taste these sample bottles, selected by the UK importer from the full range, I believe, at home some weeks after they had been prepared for their journey to London. Perhaps this was why they seemed generally much less expressive than usual. I am usually a big fan of the Rhône whites in this collection...