Benjamin Laroche grew up inside one of Chablis’s biggest names. La Manufacture is what he does on his own terms: no estate vineyards, no legacy to protect, just parcels sourced from growers he trusts and chosen for precision. Vaillons is one of the great left-bank premier crus, and these are old vines within it the kind that push deep into Kimmeridgian limestone and deliver the flinty, saline drive the site is famous for. The 2021 was a cool, honest vintage, which suits this style perfectly: ripe orchard fruit stretched over bracing acidity, with chalk running straight down the middle. Classic Chablis, no makeup.