Chablis 1er Cru "Côte de Lechet", Daniel-Etienne Defaix

Chablis 1er Cru "Côte de Lechet", Daniel-Etienne Defaix - 2007

Item # 29870 750mL

The Defaix winery owns 3 ha of this Premier Cru vineyard that is southeast facing and situated within the Clos des Moines parcel. The vines are nearing 50 years in age and low yields contribute to the greater concentration that has had a chance to settle in bottle. Slow and old school is the name of the game at the estate. After a strict triage, only the finest fruit is pressed, parcel by parcel and fermented with ambient yeasts. At times, fermentation lasts weeks. After, the wine rests on the fine lees in tank and bottled without the use of oak. Daniel-Etienne Defaix's ancestors started cultivating vines in the 16th century.
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Color
White
Vintage
2007
Country
France
Region
Burgundy
Sub-Region
Chablis
Producer
Defaix
Grape Variety
Chardonnay
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Burgundy

The range of wine styles offered in Burgundy rivals that of any other region. In Chablis, Chardonnay is left unoaked to produce lean, crisp, steely wines with incredible acidity - a far cry from the vanilla-oak bombs that so many consumers associate with this grape. Fans of rich, unctuous, and well-oaked Chardonnay will enjoy Chassagne-Montrachet, whose age-worthy offerings offer all the fatness of a California wine, yet retain a very Burgundian, mineral-driven core and great acidity....

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Chardonnay

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking world. It is a flexible, eager-to-please grape, responding well to just about anything a winemaker...

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