For the last eleven years, the cheapest bottle in our cellar, not counting gifts or inheritances, has been a 375ml of Müller-Catoir 2002 Pfalz Rieslaner Beerenauslese, Gimmeldinger Schlössel, purchased for a whopping four dollars from a now-defunct shop where I knew a guy. It was on closeout because, he explained, he just couldn't sell it in this market; but he insisted it was the best deal in the store. I'm pretty sure he wasn't wrong. Deep yellow. Somehow both tropical and austere on the palate, mixing green bananas and oily caramelized pineapple. The botrytis notes aren't overwhelming, there's plenty of acidity, and the whole package is vibrant and long. And young: even from 375ml this could develop for at least another decade. Protip: when you know a guy, and he presses a four-dollar bottle into your hands, and whispers urgently at you about how good it is, buy two (or three).
This was the followup to a Château de Béru 2014 Chablis "Côte aux Prêtres," a bottle suggested as a replacement for a corked Lias Chardonnay from the Jura that was out of stock at the shop where I bought it. Good call. Yeasty lemon-oil and baked-apple nose, generous for a young Chablis, with a lot of energy generated by the push and pull between the riper flavors and the core, somewhat slender though it is, of minerals and acid lurking beneath that exterior. This is showing very well now, and I think it's for relatively near-term drinking. I'd drink it again.