Domaine d’Élise

A couple of years went by after our first visit with Frédéric Prain before we rekindled our relationship in 2008. We wanted to be sure that the public was ready for what was then the relatively unknown appellation of Petit Chablis. Prain’s Petit Chablis d’Élise hit the SAQ shelves a year later, and the wine’s success has been truly impressive. Prain lived in Paris prior to buying his estate in Milly, one of the communes in Chablis. He’s a remarkably interesting character, whose personality is driven by his past urban experience mixed with his newly chosen life as rural artisan, which is reflected in his estate which lies on the border between Chablis and Petit Chablis. Prain’s Petit Chablis is lean and lively, owing its character to the Portlandian limestone. The Chablis, grown on classic Kimmeridgien limestone, values ripeness as much as the classic Chablis minerality and acidity.