Chablis Wine

Vosgros sits in a sun-trap amphitheatre on the left bank, which is why it gives a rounder, riper Chablis than most Premier Crus.

Montmains is the Premier Cru for anyone who wants tension rather than weight, and Labille leaves it almost entirely unoaked, letting 15 t...

Les Clos is the benchmark Chablis Grand Cru, and Fèvre farms 4.11 hectares of it — sixteen per cent of the appellation — on the sunniest upper slopes.

Goulley went organic in 1991, among the very first in Chablis to do so, and still farms every hectare that way with minimal sulphur.

Vaudésir is the most amphitheatre-like of the Chablis Grand Crus, and Fèvre's steep, fully south-facing 1.2 hectares give it energy rathe...

A grower's Chablis made entirely without oak, so what reaches the glass is Kimmeridgian limestone and citrus rather than barrel.

A Chablis house that built its name buying back Premier and Grand Cru land, applying the same gravity handling and steel ageing to its village wine.

Valmur lies between Vaudésir and Les Clos and takes something from each: the fruit of one, the frame of the other.

A family estate blending several of its own Kimmeridgian parcels rather than buying fruit in, which is rarer at this level of Chablis tha...

Vaulorent is the Premier Cru that behaves like a Grand Cru, sharing its slope with Les Preuses and parted from it only by a path.

Fèvre owns more Premier and Grand Cru land in Chablis than anyone, and Montmains is where that shows without the Grand Cru price.