Style

A precise and age-worthy Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs, showcasing the tension, purity, and chalky minerality of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. Elegant, focused, and terroir-driven.

Vineyard

Single vineyard Les Chétillons, in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger Grand Cru, Côte des Blancs. Pure chalk soils bring exceptional minerality, tension, and precision.

Winery

100% Chardonnay, vinified in a combination of stainless steel tanks and neutral oak, with full malolactic fermentation. Aged to develop greater texture and complexity while preserving freshness and terroir expression.

Nose / Palate

Citrus, green apple, white flowers, and subtle brioche. Focused and layered, with vibrant acidity, pronounced chalky minerality, fine texture, and a long, incisive, elegant finish.

Le Mesnil-sur-Oger is one of the most revered Grand Cru villages of the Côte des Blancs and perhaps the purest expression of Chardonnay’s mineral and chalk-driven character. Unlike the more generous and immediately approachable style of Oger, Le Mesnil is renowned for wines of exceptional tension, precision, freshness and longevity.

The village is planted predominantly on deep chalk soils, which allow the roots to penetrate deeply into the limestone and give the wines their distinctive saline and mineral character. The combination of chalk, exposure and a relatively cool mesoclimate creates Chardonnay with remarkable energy and a finely chiselled structure.

In the glass, Le Mesnil Chardonnay often shows lemon, grapefruit, green apple, white flowers and chalk, gradually developing notes of citrus peel, almond, pastry and subtle brioche with age. The palate is typically linear and focused, driven by vibrant acidity and a persistent saline minerality rather than sheer richness.

The greatest strength of Le Mesnil is its ability to combine intensity with restraint. The wines can appear austere when young, but with time they develop extraordinary depth, complexity and texture without losing their precision. This is a terroir where ageing reveals rather than softens the wine’s identity.

For lovers of Côte des Blancs Chardonnay, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger represents the more mineral, vertical and intellectual side of Grand Cru Chardonnay — less broad than Oger, more austere than Cramant, and defined above all by chalk, tension, salinity and exceptional ageing potential.

Les Chétillons is one of the most celebrated lieux-dits of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger and one of the great reference points for Chardonnay in the Côte des Blancs. Situated in the south-eastern part of the village, this historic vineyard has become synonymous with some of the most precise, age-worthy and terroir-driven Blanc de Blancs Champagne.

Its reputation was built over generations by growers who recognised the extraordinary potential of this site. Pierre Péters has cultivated three parcels of old vines here since the early 20th century and has produced its celebrated Les Chétillons cuvée since 1971. The Moncuit family also has deep roots in the vineyard, with old vines planted as early as 1956. Together, these producers helped establish Les Chétillons as one of the defining expressions of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger.

The vineyard is characterised by very shallow topsoil over pure chalk, allowing the roots to reach the limestone with remarkable ease. This gives the wines their distinctive combination of tension, concentration and saline minerality. The chalk does not simply bring freshness; it creates a particular sense of length and energy that remains on the palate long after the wine has disappeared.

Chardonnay from Les Chétillons is rarely about immediate richness. In its youth, it can appear restrained, almost austere, with lemon, grapefruit, green apple, white flowers and chalk dominating the profile. With bottle age, the wine develops greater texture and complexity, revealing citrus peel, almond, hazelnut, pastry and subtle smoky notes.

What makes Les Chétillons remarkable is its ability to combine power with restraint. The wine has concentration and depth, but never loses its vertical structure or mineral precision. It is a Champagne that tends to reveal itself slowly rather than immediately impressing with sheer richness.

For lovers of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Les Chétillons represents one of the purest expressions of the village: deeply chalky, saline, precise and exceptionally long-lived. It is a vineyard where the identity of the place remains unmistakable, even after decades in the bottle.

2017 was a complicated vintage in Champagne, but Le Mesnil-sur-Oger was one of the places where Chardonnay performed particularly well. A severe frost at the end of April reduced yields, followed by a warm, sunny summer. Heavy rain arrived in August and brought significant botrytis pressure, forcing growers to harvest quickly and select very carefully.

For Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, the combination of deep chalk soils and Chardonnay's relatively strong performance produced wines with good ripeness but, above all, freshness, tension and mineral precision. Producers in the village were able to harvest Chardonnay at good maturity while retaining acidity; Olivier Krug described 2017 specifically as a “Chardonnay year”, highlighting the quality of Chardonnay in Le Mesnil.