Know your étiquette! Premier Cru Chablis

We’re off to France today to visit something that would be hugely welcome, I’d imagine, on any table this (or any!) Christmas.
Chablis in northwest Burgundy is a region, a wine and a style unto itself, really. A version of cool-grown Chardonnay known its mineral purity, grown on famous limestone soils rich in marine fossils. Those fossils live on in the notions of brine, seaspray, rockpool and oyster shell the wines seem to conjure - and in our desire (or mine at least) to devour seafood while savouring the majesty of this great Chardonnay.