Just south of the Côte des Blancs — a subregion which actually is synonymous with chalk — lies the Côte de Sezanne (in fact, some sources consider it a subregion of the Côte des Blancs).... Read More

Just south of the Côte des Blancs — a subregion which actually is synonymous with chalk — lies the Côte de Sezanne (in fact, some sources consider it a subregion of the Côte des Blancs). The Collet brothers work in the village of Fontaine-Denis, next to a forest of hundred-year-old oaks and on a hodgepodge of soil types.

In the village’s north, pure white chalk blankets the hillsides. To the south, silex dominates. The Collets have been farming here since the 1700s, but it wasn’t until 2011 that Thomas, Florent, and their father René began bottling wines under their own name, rather than selling off fruit to the big houses.