The Wine
This mineraldriven Chablis from Benjamin Laroches is a nice training wine whenever you want someone to understand the classic profile of a wine from Chablis. It shows the typical citrus, chalk, and orchardfruit notes that are developed in a wine grown in Chablis’ unique Kimmeridgian soils. From a single parcel in Maligny and aged primarily in stainless steel to preserve the wine’s primary fruit and vineyard characteristics!
When you look at this wine in the glass, its slightly green hints of color portend the crispness to come. This follows through on the nose, with aromas of citrus zest, wet chalk, floral notes and stone fruits.
The Winery
Benjamin Laroche created La Manufacture as a microngoce dedicated to classic, terroirfirst Chablis. Rather than blending across the appellation, he isolates small, characterful parcelsmanufacturing wines with artisanal detail and minimal ornamentation. Champs du Puits is one of these parcellaire bottlings, sourced from the limestonerich slopes of Maligny, a northern Chablis village known for its lifted aromatics and incisive minerality.
His basic guiding principles include cool fermentations, mostly steel tank fermentation/aging (with up to 20% in neutral 500L Demi-Muids) transparency of vineyard site, low yields, a long 10-month lees aging to preserve the wine without SO2 and to add to the wine’s creamy mouthfeel. This is the real deal.
