Description

The blend is 60% Sauvignon Blanc, 20% Aligoté, and 20% Chardonnay. But then it gets complicated! 2/3 of the Sauvignon Blanc was directly pressed and aged in an amphora. For the rest, whole bunches covered in some juice, were macerated for 10 days in a stainless steel tank before pressing and aging in tank. The Aligoté was also macerated in tank for 10 days and also aged in tank. The Chardonnay was directly pressed and aged in barrels. It mainly comes from Chitry but there is also a barrel from Bel Air. (They used two new barrels for the Chablis Bel Air et Clardy in 2023 and felt that the Chablis could only take the juice from one of them.) The maceration is only really noticeable on the back of the palate where you get a little appealing bitterness and the structure from the tannin but without it feeling like an “orange wine”. It was lightly filtered.