2020 Bersan Chablis 1er Cru Montmains 750Ml Bottle

 Hand-picked fruit is meticulously sorted and then crushed for a short but important maceration that adds texture and important particulate matter to aid fermentation and add extra life-giving and character-building lees. I’m sure there are other producers in Chablis who do this crushing (á la Domaine Roulot in Meursault and Beauregard in the Macon) but it’s not common as the berries need to be perfectly healthy, perfectly ripe and nicely concentrated. After maceration the ferment starts spontaneously and it lasts for around 2 months in the cool deep cellars. It’s a mix of mostly tank fermented wine with a little older-oak matured components. This is serious Chablis from a careful producer who does everything as naturally as possible but makes clean, precise wines of impressive mineral complexity, a "wild" opulence and great laser-beam length.