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This is exactly the kind of Estate with which we love to work. One that is always searching for better ways of doing things, searching for ways to improve. They have managed their vineyards organically for three years and will soon become one of the very few (perhaps the only?) certified growers in Chablis. We also now have some Stelvin coming through. As you can see from the notes above and below, Domaine Bernard Defaix are today producing some wonderful Chablis and at remarkably good prices. For the moment we have the rare confluence of very high quality and low prices so don’t miss out. The estate owns 25 ha of vineyards in Chablis of which half are premier cru and the largest holder of the famed Cote de Lechet. Sylvain and Didier Defaix are the sons of Bernard Defaix and today run the Domaine with Didier’s wife Helene. In the vineyards a totally natural approach is adopted, as indicated above, with the exclusion of herbicides and pesticides. The little fertilizer used is organic compost. The wines are pure, fresh and textural.

Allen Meadows, Burghound, Issue 24
"The improvement at this estate has been nothing short of phenomenal and as the scores and individual wine reviews suggest, this is a flat out spectacular group of wines and in both vintages. Chablis fans should add the Defaix brothers to their short list of rising star."