TASTE
White fruit and crystallized citrus aromas on the nose, then a lively palate with notes of flowers leading on to a slightly minerally finish.
FOOD PAIRING
Fish Shell Fish & light cheese
PRODUCER
The domaine of Jean-Marc Brocard began as just one hectare, a gift from his father-in-law when he married into a winegrowing family. He has since expanded to 200 hectares, of which eighty are biodynamic, and is widely recognised as one of Chablis’s leading producers. The approach is one of minimal intervention in both vineyard and winery: cultivation is practically organic throughout, with ploughing in place of herbicides, predators instead of pesticides, manure rather than fertiliser, and as little spraying as the grapes’ health requires. The results are pure, unadorned expressions of the great chalk slopes of Chablis.
VINEYARD
Situated in the village of Chichée, this vineyard has a southern exposure. The soil is Portlandian limestone, with a layer of Jurassic. The vines are thirty years old.
WINERY
Following a pneumatic pressing, the juice underwent fermentation with indigenous yeasts at controlled temperatures in stainless steel vats, and malolactic fermentation was completed.