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Domaine Bernard Defaix

2024 and 2025 Chablis In Stock Now
Domaine Bernard Defaix

A fresh array of Chablis from Domaine Bernard Defaix has just landed, offering a compelling reminder of what careful, committed winemaking can achieve. The range centres on the 2025 vintage, alongside the newly arrived 2024 Bougros Grand Cru. In 2024, frost and hail were followed by a relentless run of rain, reducing yields to just 10–12 hl/ha. The 2025 season was kinder in the vineyard, though difficult conditions at flowering again kept volumes modest.

 

Across the range, these two vintages offer the character and freshness that have long made Domaine Bernard Defaix a compelling addition to any cellar.

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Domaine Bernard Defaix Petit Chablis 2025
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Domaine Bernard Defaix Petit Chablis 2025

Screwcap. Unusually for a Petit Chablis, the lion’s share of this cuvée is drawn from a parcel of Kimmeridgian-based soil. Well-situated on the slopes above Milly and Vaillons, it is a cool site that comes into its own in warmer vintages. Defaix has recently added two small parcels in Poinchy and Beines, which bring depth and complexity. 
Domaine Bernard Defaix Petit Chablis 2025
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Domaine Bernard Defaix Chablis 2025
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Domaine Bernard Defaix Chablis 2025

Defaix’s impressive village Chablis is drawn from four parcels of mature, 30-plus-year-old vines situated around Milly and Poinchy on the left bank of the Serein River. The wine ferments spontaneously and ages on fine lees for 10 months in glass-lined tanks. Compared to the estate’s Petit Chablis, the older vines translate to more character, depth and classical restraint. As always, this is a very fine Chablis.
Domaine Bernard Defaix Chablis 2025
$83.00
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Bernard Defaix Chablis Grand Cru Bougros 2024
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Bernard Defaix Chablis Grand Cru Bougros 2024

Diam. Located in the northwest corner of the Grand Cru slope below Preuses, Bougros has a notable south-easterly exposure and the steepest gradient of all the Chablis Grand Cru vineyards. We like Jasper Morris’s evocative description of the Bougros style, which he says is "like being smothered in a great big woolly jumper—big, fat, soft and round”. This speaks to the texture of the wines from here. Morris goes on to describe the top of the vineyard—the sector from which this wine hails—as displaying the classical minerality of Chablis.

Bernard Defaix Chablis Grand Cru Bougros 2024
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