Notes from Grand Cru Selections:

"Édouard and Eleni first met during the 2010 harvest in New Zealand. Not long after, they married and returned to Chablis to take over a small piece of Edouard's family domaine  and establish their own project in 2013. With just 3.3 hectares to start, their vision was clear: a more artisanal, sustainable approach, focused on farming. Making single-site wines that highlight the individuality of each plot through the same thoughtful, minimalist winemaking. Their small holdings allowed them to know every vine by heart...in 2023, Édouard inherited an additional 5 hectares of impressive real estate —including Butteaux and new 1er crus Forêts, Séchet, Châtaigne, and Montée de Tonnerre, along with the Grands Crus Blanchots, Valmur, and Les Clos—bringing the domaine to roughly 10 hectares. 

Among the domaine’s most treasured vineyards, Butteaux includes nearly 0.32 hectares of old sélection massale vines rooted in Kimmeridgian supérieur soils. Long a focus for Édouard, and expanded through inheritance in 2023, Butteaux offers depth, intensity, and distinctive mineral drive."

Wine Advocate

"Issuing from two plots planted with massal selection in 1956 and 1962, totaling 0.5 hectares, Eleni & Edouard Vocoret’s 2023 Chablis 1er Cru Les Butteaux is the most incisive and linear wine in the range. Exhibiting notes of green apple, oyster shell and lemon zest, it’s medium to full-bodied, bright and tense, retaining plenty of classically Chablisien character, and concludes with a pure, searingly saline and precise finish. It is well worth seeking out."