Domaine Eleni et Edouard Vocoret

'Chatains' 1er Cru Chablis 2023

In just over a decade, Édouard and Eleni Vocoret have become emblematic of Chablis’s new generation — precise, patient, and uncompromising in their respect for terroir. Their 10 hectares across premier and grand cru sites are farmed with care, each cuvée revealing a distinct facet of the region’s mineral landscape.

Châtains comes from two high, steep plots on the rocky southwest slopes of Vaillon, planted in 1971 and 1991. Old vines and stony soils yield a wine of striking purity and lift, with notes of acacia, citrus and iodine. Medium-weight and finely etched, it carries impressive depth and tension through a long, saline finish — an elegant, tightly wound expression of Vaillon’s elevated slopes.