The Daniel-Etienne Defaix Chablis Vieilles Vignes 2019 is a rich and lively wine, ideal for an aperitif or pairing with seafood such as oysters and fish. It can also complement hearty dishes like roasted andouillette or Burgundy snails with Chablis butter persillade. This Chablis is made from old vines planted on Kimmeridgien marl soils and has been carefully crafted using natural yeast fermentation and aging on lees for 12 months. The wine shows great depth with fresh minerality, fruit notes, and a buttery finish. The estate, with a history dating back four centuries, is located on some of the oldest and most prestigious terroirs in Chablis, perpetuating a long tradition of winemaking.

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The richness almost insolent of this Chablis makes an ideal wine for aperitif, an excellent companion of the fish, oysters, plates of seafood. 

This Chablis can flirt with a roasted andouillette or snails of Burgundy with Chablis and butter persillade.

Soil : Kimmeridgien Marl.
Exposition : South, south-east and South west
Grape variety : Chardonnay
Vinification and growing:
best of wine at pressuring 
Alcoholic fermentation with natural yeast at 18C for 3 weeks. 
Malolactic fermentation achieved. 
Stirring of fine lees each month for 12 months.

Daniel-Etienne Defaix owns one of the most ancient estate in Chablis (height centuries for the Vieux Château)

Since 4 centuries, Defaix family are winemakers from father to son.

The family estate is lodated on the most ancients terroirs from Chablis, where monks on Pontigny made a selection one thousand years ago to create the Chablis Appelation.

Daniel-Etienne DEFAIX perpetuates the secular and familial tradition on these great monastic appellations. The works at the vines remains traditionnal because a clean and healthy vineyard gives a good quality of grapes and so of wines.

The domain is 28 hectares, planted with Chardonnay on a typical soil called "kimmeridgien" (Jurassique supérieur, a marne argilo-calcaire with a lot of oysters fossilized inside).

The privileged exposition of the monks of Pontigny was still hill with high slope exposed south-East. A benefit for Chablis, scared by the freezes of the spring, that takes the first sunshines and also avoid crop losses.