"From vineyards around the town of Chichee, Picq's generic 2007 Chablis smells of pear, freesia, almond, and shrimp shell reduction. Corresponding flavors mingle with refreshing grapefruit on a velvet-textured palate. Bitter hints of black currant skin and citrus pips are subtly integrated into a long, lively, buoyant, infectiously juicy finish whose complex interplay of citrus, floral, and mineral elements is rare for basic Appellation Chablis."

The wines of Picq represent some of the most amazing values in Chablis, not only on account of the reasonable prices asked for their two premier crus, but for the frequently premier cru quality exhibited by their trio of villages wines, a quality that is nothing short of astonishing in 2007. (And the components for 2008 were exciting too, early on.) As a measure of the impact of hail in sites upstream along the Serein, Didier Picq obtained only 4,000 bottles of 2007 Vosgros, not much more than a third of his typical crop, though Vaucoupin was hit much less severely. The reduced crop here ultimately contributed to high must weights, Picq says, yet in his relatively cool sites picking took place largely only in late September. His wines finished fermenting by Christmas and completed their malolactic transformations already by February.