La Chablisienne Chablis 1er Cru Montmains 2022
£36.75
The wine
Montmains is the connoisseur's Premier Cru: structured, nervy and unfailingly mineral. Grapefruit and lemon pith over a chalky, saline core, with the concentration to reward a few years in the rack. Serious Chablis from three hundred growers who know their parcels.
The producer
La Chablisienne
View all La Chablisienne winesLa Chablisienne is the great cooperative of Chablis, founded in 1923 and now representing around three hundred growers farming roughly a quarter of the entire appellation. That scale would mean mediocrity almost anywhere else; here it means access to an extraordinary spread of parcels across every level of the hierarchy.
The winemaking is serious, the Premiers Crus genuinely site-specific, and the house has long been regarded as one of the most reliable names in the region. Proof that a cooperative, properly run, can make wine to shame many a domaine.






