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PETIT CHABLIS 2025

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2024 2025

Varietal

Chardonnay.

Tasting notes

Colour: Pale golden dress, limpid, and bright.

Bouquet: Elegant aromas of white flowers (acacia), mixed with notes of citrus carried by a mineral and fruity base.

Palate: It is vivid and light, with a well-balanced acidity. The enthusiastic attack is followed by a pleasant roundness. Its full body pairs with its freshness and offers a persistent sensation on the palate.

Food and wine pairing

This wine pairs well with oysters, raw fish, and prawns, small river fish (fried), grilled sardines, and numerous other fish species. It also goes well with tripe sausages (andouillettes) and snails, goat's cheeses and pressed or hard cheeses. Its freshness is the perfect accompaniment to summer salads and aperitifs served with savory puff pastries (gougères).

Serving suggestions

Serve ideally between 12-14°C / 54-57°F.

Ageing potential

This wine can be enjoyed now or kept in the cellar for the next 2 years.

Origins

Village Appellation of the Chablis wine-growing district (dept. of Yonne) in the north of Burgundy. This appellation may be grown in any of the communes within the delimited area of the Chablis wine-growing district.

The vineyards of the Petit-Chablis appellation lie on either side of the River Serein. This AOC was instituted in 1944. It is one of the jewels in the crown of the Chablis district which, lying in the northernmost department of Burgundy, forms the « golden gate » to the region as a whole. A Chardonnay wine through and through, « Petit » Chablis has, in fact, nothing « little » about it.

These carefully selected terroirs occupy the higher portions of the winegrowing slopes or the edge of the plateau. The soils are brown and derived from hard limestones, with patches of sandy silts. Altitudes : mostly between 230 and 280 metres.

Vinification and maturing

Grapes were pressed immediately after the picking, the juice was settled, the fermentation started with the addition of selected yeasts in stainless steel tanks under controlled temperatures (18°C) to preserve as much fruit as possible. In order to get a suppler wine, we let the malolactic fermentation begin 10 days after the alcoholic fermentation; it ended in the end of November. The wine is then aged on partial lees for 4 to 5 months.

Vintage : 2025

The 2025 growing season in Burgundy was marked by a rainfall deficit of around 30% compared with 2024, combined with an early harvest. The first cuts of the secateurs took place on August 25 in the Beaune Premier Cru vineyards, notably in Savigny-lès-Beaune (Clos du Roi and Marconnets).

Across the entire vineyard, harvesting began up to two weeks earlier than in 2024 and extended over a longer-than-usual period to adapt to weather conditions, which turned rainy at the outset of the harvest. All grapes were brought in on time: sanitary conditions were very good, and the fruit shows an aromatic concentration that suggests elegant, refined wines. While volumes appear stable compared to 2024, they nevertheless remain below the five-year average.

At the time of the first run-offs in mid-September, red wines were showing gentle extraction with fine colour. White wines, meanwhile, quickly revealed themselves to be rich, flavoursome and concentrated, while retaining fine freshness thanks to cool nights that preserved acidity.

In summary, 2025 is shaping up to be a vintage of character and quality, for both red and white Burgundy wines.