Screwcap. Certified organic. Defaix’s Chablis villages is drawn from four parcels of mature, 30-plus-year-old vines situated around Milly and Poinchy, on the left bank of the Serein River. The wine was fermented wild and aged on fine lees for 10 months in glass-lined tanks.
 
The older vines and organically tended vineyards here translate more character, refinement, and classical restraint—not to mention supersized minerality and ozone salinity. There is even more Chablisien detail this year. The texture is succulent, with the rippling splendour of stone fruit and citrus-skin zestiness to go with its charged acidity and jangle of minerals. The three Ps: power, poise, and persistence. A super villages.
 
“Concentrated, good clarity – faintly accented with greens. Supple – again concentrated – great freshness and shape in the mouth – yes a little pyrazine but here is super mouth-feel and a delicious complexity of flavour. Very long too” Bill Nanson, The Burgundy Report
 
“Racked six weeks ago. Pale lemon yellow. This is supple and stylish, with white fruit, easy on the attack yet still with good grip behind and a light iodine touch to accompany the white fruit. Good finish. Tasted: July 2021” 87-89 points, Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy