Citrus-forward and relentlessly energetic — grapefruit, pomelo, yuzu, and orange cycling through in quick succession, with white peach underneath and a clean, stony finish. Jancis Robinson scored it 16.5/20 and called it "chirping with character," which is high praise for a Petit Chablis. It's light-bodied but has real drive and precision, not the bland, forgettable white wine this appellation too often produces.

Marine Descombe — fifth-generation Beaujolais winemaker from the Famille Descombe dynasty founded in 1905 — bought this small Chablis estate in 2017 from a retiring winemaker who had no heirs. She farms 30 hectares across 21 individual plots under HVE environmental certification: no herbicides, natural hedges, cover crops. The Petit Chablis specifically comes from younger Portlandian limestone soils, which push more fruit than minerality — fermented in stainless steel, aged on fine lees, no oak. Clean, honest winemaking.