| Winery Location: | Chablis |
| Year Established: | 1948 |
Vineyard Holdings
1,200 ha
- Grand Cru:
- Blanchot (1 ha.)
- Bougros (0.25 ha)
- Les Clos (0.50 ha)
- Grenouilles including Château de Grenouilles (7.5 ha)
- Les Preuses (4 ha)
- Valmur (0.25 ha)
- Vaudésir (0.50 ha.)
- Premier Cru:
- Fourchaume
- Montée de Tonnerre
- Mont de Milieu
- Vaillons
- Côte de Léchet
- Beauroy
Top Wines Produced
- Chablis, Grand Cru, Château de Grenouilles
- Chablis, Grand Cru, Blanchots
- Chablis, Grand Cru, Les Clos
- Chablis, Grand Cru, Les Preuses
Average Total Production
- N/A
Summary
This is the most powerful entity in all of Chablis. The cooperative has three-hundred members, and represent 25% of the vineyards in Chablis. The Cooperative began when a group of vineyard owners, facing dire economic times, decided to join together under the leadership of Abbé Balitrand. At first they would take the finished wines of each property, and then blend them into different cuvées. Starting in the 1950s they began to take the musts and take charge of the vinification themselves. The cooperative owns Château de Grenouilles which is a 7.2 hectare estate at the base of the Grenouilles Grand Cru. There is a second label to this wine named „Le Fief de Grenouilles.“ The cooperative makes wines from six Grands Crus and fifteen Premiers Crus, plus a number of Chablis and Petit Chablis wines.
Style & Vinification Techniques
Since the cooperative works with three-hundred different growers it is hard to define what the vineyard practices are, but they are described as Lutte Raisonée bythe cooperative. The winery receives musts and from there they choose how the wine is fermented and how it is aged. For some wines they are aged in stainless steel for other wines they are aged in oak. All of the Grands Crus are aged in oak, the Chateau de Grenouilles sees a sixteen month aging in oak barrels before bottling.
Producer Website: La Chablisienne