The Moncuit family has a long history of farming some of the best vineyards in the Côte des Blancs. They began purchasing land in 1889 and by 1928 were bottling at the domaine.

The current winemaker, Pierre Amillet, is the fourth generation to lead the winery. If you spend any time with him you quickly realize he is obsessed with Chardonnay grown in the chalky terroirs of Le Mesnil. (We’re not exaggerating, we’ve got the rocks he has suitcased over to us to prove it!)

The estate has 8 hectares planted in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger and 2 hectares in Oger. All the wines assume optimum maturity, through fermentation in barrels (350 liters), systematic malolactic fermentation, aging of three years for the brut and five years for the vintages, aged for their part under cork.

Les Chetillons is a parcel that has been in Pierre’s family for over 70 years. Pierre, taking over the domaine in 2000 is only the second winemaker to bottle a wine solely from Les Chetillons. He did this because he found this site achieved the purest expression of the village, Le Mesnil.

This parcel sits directly on chalk, no clay or anything else. Along with chalk soils, there are old vines that extend down 10 meters into the soil. For Pierre, terroir is directly linked to the vigor of the root system and soil.

Since 2000, Pierre Amillet, has continued his family's vision: to bring out the terroir of Le Mesnils as authentically as possible, working organically and strengthening the natural microcosm of the vineyard.

Almost all of the wines are fermented and raised in a combination of tank and oak, the goal being contact with the lees and the preservation of Mesnil’s ability to yield wines with pronounced minerality and precision. The malos happen naturally and they don't filter or chapitalize.

The domaine currently has a 1.5 hectare parcel in Oger, Mesnil's neighboring village to the north. 66 ares of the 1.5 hectares are in the climat of "Les Vozemieux". (1 are is 1/100th of a hectare, so 66 ares is 0.66 hectare.) The vines in Les Vozemiux were planted in 1955.

2010 was the first vintage of Les Vozemieux. Pierre decided to vinify this climat separately because he wanted to see what difference, if any, there would be between his parcel of Chetillons in Mesnil and Les Vozemieux in Oger.

Vinfication of Les Vozemieux is the same as Les Chetillons:
Both are fermented in barrel. Malo is done Both are in wood until the summer after harvest. The wine is bottled the summer after harvest and aged on cork. No chapitalization or filtration. The wine is Extra Brut and close to being zero dosage.

If you taste Chetillons next to Vozemieux. Vozemieux is more open, rounder, and more forward. Chetillons is leaner and the more direct of the two. The only difference between Chetillons and Vozemieux is soil and terroir. Even the age of the vines is similar. Vozeumeix's exposition is due north so it matures later then Chetillons. Chetillons is southeast facing. The two parcels are only 500 meters apart. (So about a third of a mile.)

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