The Hamelin family has been growing vines in Chablis for six generations, each one adding to the holdings and developing the winemaking techniques.
The domaine now stands at thirty-seven hectares, spread between the villages of Poinchy, Beines and Lignorelles.
For 7 generations, the Hamelin family has been making wine – from the 1840s when Gustave Hamelin purchased 2 hectares of vines and a mule to work the land, to today where Thierry Hamelin and his son Charles cultivate over 36 hectares of vines stretched out over 3 villages.
The knowledge handed down from generation to generation is a harmonious mix of old traditions and modern-day techniques.
Their focus is to craft generous and elegant wines that are a pure expression of the terroir.
In order to achieve this goal, a well-controlled and thermo-regulated winemaking process is essential.
They bottle all of their wine in-house at the optimal moment, at which point the wine is at its most expressive.
Chablis (A.O.C.)
A total area of 19.4 hectares, grown in the three villages mentioned above.
Among these vines, in the designated Chablis area, there are still some old vines (1 ha) of 70 years and over.
If the year so allows, a special wine is made from these older vines, called the Chablis “Vieilles Vignes”.
The subsoil is generally limestone (Portlandian). The average annual production is 1125 hl.
