'Jean-Claude Bessin and his son Romain produce some of the finest wines in Chablis at this 12-hectare domaine in La Chapelle Vaupelteigne. As I've written before, this estate really deserves to be talked about more, as it belongs among Chablis's top half-dozen domaines. Bessin, as he puts it, loves the acidity and tension of Chablis on the condition that it's paired with substance and flesh, a philosophy that's admirably translated into practice in the form of wines with cut and concentration, texture and definition. Harvesting by hand, followed by fermentation and élevage in neutral wood and tank on the lees, for as many as 18 months, is the method by which they are produced. The resulting wines offer everything one's looking for in great Chablis”
- The Wine Advocate review by William Kelley
Organic viticulture
