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Diam. On the opposite flank of the Valvan valley to Les Vaillons, and with a deep soil of bleu d'argile (blue clay) yet still with plenty of limestone, Montmains is commonly cited as producing 'textbook' Chablis of minerality and verve. Defaix’s wine is sourced from a parcel of 35-year-old vines in the eponymous section of Montmains, a cool terroir close to the Serein River—a site that lends this wine its cool, mineral backbone. Raised in old oak barrels for 12 months, Defaix’s first bottling from this vineyard is a vibrant, fleshy Chablis with yellow plums and tangy grapefruit entwined with chalk and struck match notes before a lasting finish tinged with dark stone minerality.