Bernard Defaix Chablis 1er Cru Cote de Lechet 2022 CS20231031 Angel Rodriguez refused to touch

Angel Rodriguez refused to touch his family's 17th-century Martinsancho plot in La Seca

At the village level

and the limestone shifts as it rises

This German gin uses 47 different botanicals

and sometimes misunderstood

Bernard Defaix Chablis 1er Cru Cote de Lechet 2022 CS20231031 Angel Rodriguez refused to touchBernard Defaix has been working the slopes around Milly since 1959, and the family is certified organic (with biodynamic preparations in the vineyards). Cote de Lechet is their flagship 1er Cru: a southeast facing, marl and limestone hillside on the left bank of the Serein, above Milly, where the Defaix's are the largest landholders. The stony soil here is studded with the fossilized Exogyra virgula oysters that give classic Chablis its electric