Chablis wine

Chablis

Wine region
View of Chablis, Burgundy, from the north, vineyard of Vaulorent in the foreground
Type	Appellation d'origine contrôlée
Year established	1938
Country	France
Part of	Burgundy
Total area	6,834 ha (16,890 acres)
Size of planted vineyards	4,820 ha (11,900 acres)
Varietals produced	Chardonnay (Beaunois)

Chablis (pronounced [ʃabli]) is the northernmost Appellation d'origine contrôlée of the Burgundy region in France. Its cool climate produces wines with more acidity and less fruitiness than Chardonnay vines grown in warmer ones. These often have a "flinty" note, sometimes described as "goût de pierre à fusil" ("tasting of gunflint"), and sometimes as "steely". The Chablis AOC is required to use Chardonnay grapes solely.

The grapevines around the town of Chablis make a dry white wine renowned for the purity of its aroma and taste. In comparison with the white wines from the rest of Burgundy, Chablis wine has typically much less influence of oak. The amount of barrel maturation, if any, is a stylistic choice which varies widely among Chablis producers. Many Grand Cru and Premier Cru wines receive some maturation in oak barrels, but typically the time in barrel and the proportion of new barrels is much smaller than for white wines of Côte de Beaune.^[1] Wines not vinified in barrel will instead be vinified in stainless steel.