Type

White Wine

Appellation

Chablis 1er Cru

Variety

Chardonnay

Michaut's 0.6 hectare parcel of Beauroy is located just outside his hometown of Beines, across from the reservoir his grandfather helped create in 1979. Beauroy stretches quite a ways from Beine towards Chablis, and Michaut's vines are in a lieu-dit within Beauroy called Côte de Savant (translates to wise-man's hill). Michaut produces two wines from this same parcel. Like all of Michaut's wines, this cuvée is vinified with native yeasts. Beauroy is fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks, while Côte de Savant is vinified and aged in 500 L oak demi-muids.

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Beauroy - Lieu-dit Côte de Savant

Soil type

Claylimestone soils, and white marls.

Vine age1980

Vineyard size0.62 ha

Vinification

Natural settling at low-temperature for 36 hours. The juice is vinified in 500L oak barrels with native yeasts, then undergos malolactic fermentation.

ElevageThe wine is then aged for 14 months in these demimuids, lightly filtered, and finally bottled.

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Fining/FilteringUnfined / light filtration

More about
the producer

Guillaume Michaut

Founded in 2018

1.5 hectares

Guillaume Michaut has been surrounded by vineyards and the history of Chablis since childhood. His grandfather was an early believer in the wines of Chablis and worked proudly to expand the Chablis appellation to his village of Beines and beyond. By the 1960s, he was able to pass a rather large holding of vineyards down to his sons. As a teenager, Guillaume worked alongside his father and uncles in the vineyards and joined the family domaine in 2004. However, after his father passed away, Guillaume realized that his vision was starkly different from that of his uncles, and decided to set out on his own with his small share of family vines back in 2018.

These vineyards represent just over one hectare altogether: 0.4 hectares of Chablis in Vau Brou, which he helped plant in...