Bernard Defaix farms organically across 27 hectares in the heart of Chablis, with parcels in four of the region’s top premier crus. Vaillons sits on the left bank of the Serein, a classic Kimmeridgian limestone amphitheater of fossilized oyster shells laid down in the Jurassic. It is the more elegant counterpoint to the family’s powerful, marl-driven Cote de Lechet, also on the left bank above Milly: cooler, finer, and more about lift than weight. A textbook left-bank Chablis from a benchmark Milly producer.