Henri Costal "Les Truffieres" Chablis 2023
(Burgundy, France)

About the Domaine:
Domaine Costal / Henri Costal is a unique collaboration between the well-known Chablis producer Domaine Jean Collet and Kermit Lynch. The project began with a simple barrel tasting with Kermit and led to a custom label, custom vinification, and bottling process exclusively for the American market. The end result of this first tasting was a terroir-driven Chablis from a single vineyard site called Truffières, loosely translated as “site where truffles grow.”

In 2018, owner Romain Collet was digging through his family’s archives and found the original label that his great-grandfather, Henri Costal designed and used when he founded the domaine. Romain proposed that they revive this historical label and use the Henri Costal name. Beginning with the 2017 vintage, all wines from this collaboration with the Collet’s have been labeled as Henri Costal.

• 100% of wine is vinified in stainless steel and aged for another 10 months in stainless steel

• After being raised in stainless steel for 10 months, wine spends 3 months in demi-muid barrels (600-L)

• The wine is neither fined nor filtered

• The Truffières vineyard is located in the commune of Villy, north of the town of Chablis

A stunning, hand-crafted premier cru Vaillons from thirty-year-old vines. This is classic Chablis: precise, pure, and driven. Velvety citrus fruit gives way to textbook chalk, slate, and stone.