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2021 Chablis 1er Cru L'Homme Mort Vieilles Vignes, Le Domaine d'Henri Your Store

2015 Chablis 1er Cru L'Homme Mort Vieilles Vignes, Le Domaine d'Henri

Chablis, Burgundy, France

“Ancient Chalk”

This is Chablis with age, pedigree and a quietly thrilling sense of place. The 2015 L’Homme Mort Vieilles Vignes opens with preserved lemon, orchard fruit and dried white flowers, layered with chalk dust, oyster shell and a soft flicker of flint. Time in bottle has taken the sharper edges and turned them into something more graceful and complex, while those old vines, more than 50 years of age, bring extra depth and presence to every line.

On the palate, it is beautifully settled, generous but still unmistakably Chablis. There is a lovely interplay between citrus oil, yellow apple and saline minerality, with a subtle honeyed note beginning to emerge from maturity. The texture is broader now, more silk than steel, yet the wine still carries that cool Fourchaume precision through the finish. Long, savoury and quietly layered, it lingers on chalk, lemon peel and a gentle seashell note that feels both refined and haunting.

This special cellar release makes it all the more compelling. Matured at source and released direct from the château, it arrives with the kind of provenance and bottle age that Chablis lovers rarely get to experience, a wine that has been allowed to unfold slowly, exactly as the domaine intended.

For when you want white Burgundy with soul, maturity and mineral poise.
Pairs with lobster, turbot, roast chicken with morels or a table that appreciates the beauty of aged Chardonnay.
If this wine were a mood, it would be candlelight on old stone walls, calm, deep and full of quiet atmosphere.

Le Domaine d’Henri was founded by Michel Laroche in 2010 after he sold his stake in Domaine Laroche, while keeping the family’s historic vineyards in Chablis. Named in honour of his father, Henri, the estate is now run with his children, Margaux and Romain, and is dedicated to old-vine, terroir-driven wines of purity and restraint. L’Homme Mort, in the Fourchaume sector, takes its name from the discovery of an ancient cemetery nearby containing Merovingian skeletons, a detail that only adds to the mystique of one of the domaine’s most characterful and age-worthy sites.

Whats in the bottle
100% Chardonnay

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Le Domaine d’Henri was founded in 2010 by Michel Laroche, one of the most important modern figures in Chablis. The Laroche family’s roots in the region stretch back to 1695, and Michel spent decades building Domaine Laroche into one of Burgundy’s best-known names. When he sold his stake in that business, he retained the family’s most historic vineyard holdings and, alongside his wife Cécile and children Margaux and Romain, created Le Domaine d’Henri as a more intimate, family-run estate. Named in tribute to Michel’s father, Henri, the domaine represents both a continuation of a deep Chablis legacy and a return to something more personal and terroir-focused.

The estate is defined by old vines, meticulous farming and a restrained, classical approach in the cellar. Rather than chasing weight or overt winemaking signatures, the family focuses on expressing the tension, salinity and stony precision that make Chablis unique. Many of their finest parcels lie in and around Fourchaume, where Kimmeridgian limestone soils and mature vine age combine to give the wines both mineral cut and textural depth. Their Vieilles Vignes bottlings, in particular, have become known for marrying Premier Cru pedigree with a sense of quiet concentration and age-worthiness.

What makes Le Domaine d’Henri especially compelling is the sense of continuity it offers. This is not simply a new project from an established name, but a family reclaiming and refining its own heritage. The wines feel rooted in the old Chablis tradition, elegant, cellar-worthy and unshowy, yet they are delivered with the confidence and precision of a modern benchmark producer.

Vintage
2015
Types
White Wine
Size
750ml
Region
Burgundy
Alcohol by Volume
12.5%
Grape
Chardonnay
Country
France
Producer
Le Domaine d"Henri
Sub-Region
Chablis