Chablis Grand Calcaire

TERROIR Carefully selected grapes grown on cool hillside vineyard plots. Clay-limestone marls from the Kimmeridgian peppered with small comma-shaped limestone oysters (known as ‘Ostrea Virgula’) measuring just a few millimetres. This unique soil type gives the wines their original characters and distinctive minerality. The night-time temperatures are cool owing to the northern position of the vineyards which helps to preserve the grapes’ acidity thereby imparting

VINIFICATION AND AGING The grape juice is settled with precision before being fermented primarily in stainless steel vats with careful monitoring of the temperature and fermentation kinetics. A small proportion of the musts are fermented in oak barrels. The wine is then aged on its fine lees with stirring (bâtonnage) carried out during the first two months of aging to create even greater complexity. Frequent tastings help to ensure the optimum development of the wine’s organoleptic qualities before the final blending stage.