Petit Chablis vines tend to sit above the river on younger Portlandian limestone, the bedrock that caps the hillsides where the great Kimmeridgian soils give way. The Defaix family farms theirs organically and treats it with the same attention as their 1er Crus – quote from Helene Defaix: “we do the same work on a Petit Chablis that we do on a Premier Cru.” The result is a fresh, energetic, no-nonsense Chablis to drink young and often, with all the saline cut you want from the appellation.