2010 Domaine Daniel-Etienne Defaix Vaillons, Chablis Premier Cru, France Galilee left on the fine lees

left on the fine lees until bottling in February

Our Bates Ranch story would not be complete without mentioning the many bottles spanning many vintages of Val and Dexter Alhgren’s Bates Ranch Cabernets that we have been drinking since about 2001

gulpable whole cluster Cinsault from one of the heroes of natural wine in the Languedoc

hence the name Lavalamp

2010 Domaine Daniel-Etienne Defaix Vaillons, Chablis Premier Cru, France Galilee left on the fine leesThe Defaix familyone of the oldest winegrowing families in the regionowns thirty hectares of vines, the vast majority of which are in premier and grand cru vineyards, but Danny designates only his best lots each vintage as cru level, declassifying the remainder as villages. Note the singular Vaillon instead of the more commonplace Les Vaillons on Defaixs label. The boundaries of this vineyard were extended in 1976 to take advantage of its popularity