Chablis is the northernmost of Burgundy's illustrious regions, the first you will arrive at if travelling southeast from Paris. Within a kilometre of the town centre at Chablis, on the other side of Serein River, lies a fortuitous slope of fossil rich clays, planted to seven of the most salubrious white wine vineyards of all France. The greater appellation of Montmain is a hundred hectares on the opposite bank, to the southwest, William Fevre own less than two hectares of stone strewn parcels named Butteaux and Forêts, they yield a muscular style of Chablis with prominent mineral edge.