Historia
In 1850, Jean Victor Laroche, a vineyard laborer, bought his first parcels of vines in the village of Maligny, a short distance from the village of Chablis. Passed along from father to son, the Laroche vineyards continued to expand gradually and by the mid-1960s totaled 6 hectares (14.83 acres).
In 1960, the Chablis appellation as a whole had just 600 hectares (1,482.66 acres) in production. The region had been in decline since the epidemic...