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Joseph Le Roi - Les Fourneaux - Chablis label
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Joseph Le Roi - Les Fourneaux - Chablis 2017

White Wine

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Item# 13471-17

Description

Les Fourneaux is a Premier Cru vineyard site on the eastern edge of Chablis, located in a valley near the small village of Fleys. The vineyard is named for its warm mesoclimate (fourneaux means "furnace" in French), and the Chardonnay-based wines produced here tend to have ripe, tropical flavors alongside their intense minerality.

As in much of Chablis, the Les Fourneaux Premier Cru vineyard is distinguished from the surrounding vineyards by its Kimmeridgian marl soils: a terroir that is found across Chablis and in the Champagne vineyards as well. This soil, made up of ancient marine fossils, is rocky and porous with a high limestone content, which is thought to contribute to the minerality of the resultant wines.