Domaine Louis Michel

This is the story of the Michel family, who has been making wines in the heart of Chablis since the 19thcentury. A firmly rooted sense of excellence is passed down from generation to generation. Louis Michel & Fils hasalways been a family business, and is managed today by Guillaume Michel, who takes great pride inperpetuating the Domaine’s ethos.

Kimmeridgian and Portlandian subsoil, a semi-continental climate and an emblematic grape, Chardonnay:these are the ingredients that create the magic of the Chablis terroir. Chablis boasts unique soil that is made up of marl, limestone and oyster fossils dating back 150million years. This soil plays an important role in winemaking, because it brings even greater varietyto the aromatic complexity of the wines, and provides the minerality that is...

The Domaine has one guiding principle: in a terroir as rich and unique as Chablis, the wines are made in thevineyard. At every stage, human intervention is kept to the strictest minimum, so that nature can express itself fully. This approach first manifests itself through the work carried out in the vineyard, through restrainedviticulture: ground cover, disbudding, green harvesting, working on the land to avoid the use ofherbicides, and many o...