Louis Michel & Fils Petit Chablis 2017 750 ML

The source of the most racy, light and tactile, yet uniquely complex?Chardonnay, Chablis, while considered part of Burgundy, actually reaches far past the most northern stretch of the C?te d?Or proper. Its vineyards cover hillsides surrounding the small village of Chablis about 100 miles north of Dijon, making it actually closer to?Champagne?than to Burgundy. Champagne and Chablis have a unique soil type in common called Kimmeridgian, which isn?t found anywhere else in the world except southern England. A 180 million year-old geologic formation of decomposed clay and limestone, containing tiny fossilized oyster shells, spans from the Dorset village of Kimmeridge in southern England all the way down through Champagne, and to the soils of Chablis. This soil type produces wines full of structure, austerity, minerality, salinity and finesse.