2017 Domaine Samuel Billaud Chablis 1er Cru "Mont de Milieu"

Moving on to the penultimate Chardonnay in the lineup, wine E from The Great Chardonnay Tasting was unveiled to be the 2017 Domaine Samuel Billaud Chablis 1er Cru "Mont de Milieu".
The tasting notes for the wine is the following:

Of all of the wines in our line up, this one was the one that I thought had the most citrus, lemon flavor which lead me to suspect that this was the Chablis. One of our friends at the tasting remarked that having tasted California Chablis, the moniker "Chablis" ruined the flavor of an authentic Chablis for her. I expected a steely, flinty note from the 2017 Domaine Samuel Billaud Chablis 1er Cru "Mont de Milieu" but the citrus notes were balanced with just a hint of oak, actually not something that I was expecting from a Chablis.

2013 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Combettes"

Wine D in our line up for The Great Chardonnay Tasting was the 2013 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cur "Les Combettes". As per the other wines in our tasting, these were the notes provided before hand.

If the Littori aroma was one of white stone fruit, the 2013 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Combettes" was even more intoxicating with spice and fruit. The color in the glass was golden yellow. When I first tasted the wine, the flavor seemed a little muted but over the course of the evening, I kept on going back to get another taste and it opened up beautifully with notes of honey, tropical fruits and a long finish with a well integrated backbone of soft oak and acidity. This wine was my favorite. But it was also in a company with other stellar wines so to say that I was splitting hairs would be hitting the nail on the head.
To complement the wine tasting, small plates of food included home made pumpkin ravioli and autumn apple salad:

2017 Littorai Winery "Charles Heintz Vineyard" Chardonnay

Wine C on our night of The Great Chardonnay Tasting was the 2017 Littorai Winery "Charles Heintz Vineyard" Chardonnay.

The tasting notes made mention of the special nature of the Charles Heintz Vineyard and coincidentally, the grapes that went into the 2017 Ultramarine Sonoma Coast sparkling wine that we had as part of the appetizer course was sourced from Charles Heintz Vineyard.
The Littorai was also the wine that launched the planning for the Great Chardonnay Tasting. My husband and I went to Visit Littorai way back in January 2012 and although Ted was not there to show us around his facility, we were in the capable hands of assistant winemaker, John Wilson. Our interest in Littorai at that time was that it was a winery that treated the grape juice with the use of gravity. At the end of the tour, we were treated to a wine tasting but oddly enough, we never bought any wine. That oversight was corrected when we got a chance to taste this 2017 Littori Chardonnay.
This wine was the first that really appealed to my sense of smell. The bouquet was one of white stone fruit, white peaches and the flavor was one of tropical fruits with an acid finish. All of the wines were quite impeccable, but if I must, this wine was one that I would put in my top two.

2017 VGW Chardonnay 00 Winery

The blinded wine "B" in our Great Chardonnay Tasting was revealed to be the 2017 VGW Chardonnay from 00 Winery. Here are the notes provided to our guests:

I was very interested in tasting this wine because I blogged about Katherine Cole on Black Chardonnay on November, 2017. It is worth looking at some photos provided by 00 Winery in the article written by Katerine Cole about black Chardonnay.¹

The initial juice that comes out from the pressing a la hyperoxidation is very black! However, if you look at the lineup of the wines that we tasted in the blogpost 2002 Meursault 1er Cru "La Piece sous le bois" Domaine Robert Ampeau, there would be no way to pick out the 00 based on color alone. The color of the 00 was now very clear, pale yellow!
My first swirl and sniff of this wine was a little underwhelming, providing no discernable aroma. Maybe I needed to wait for it to open up. The wine had the most oak flavors in this lineup. We were fortunate that there was a bit of the 00 left so we tasted it on the following day and I thought that although there were no flaws and it had a very nice spicy finish, I was left wondering about the mid-palate.
Food and the smells from the food can affect the flavors of the wines that are served. We brought out small dishes throughout the tasting. Two of the dishes were cod cakes and baked oysters.

Nothing bad here, these dishes made excellent pairings with the Chardonnay.
References:
1. Katerine Cole, Meet Black Chardonnay, SevenFiftyDaily, August 3, 2017.
2. Rare Wine Company, Double-Zero Chardonnay.