Description

Léa Schaller took over the family farm in 2019, the third generation to do so. Instead of simply selling the grape crop to the local co-op, she learned winemaking, built a small winery and created Domaine Orion, named after a song by the band Metallica. The owl on her label harkens back to the 19th century, when Schallers came to Chablis from Alsace; in old German, Schaller refers to the village bell ringer who rang in the close of the day and the coming of owls. 

Nearly two hectares (5 acres) planted in 1978 and facing south off the road to Chablis. The second year of production—2020—Andy Howard MW reviewed this vintage of Orion Chablis in Decanter Magazine and gave it a score of 92. Like the Petit, this ferments spontaneously in steel and is raised entirely in steel. Light fining and filtering. Production: 10,000 bottles.  JUST 2400 bottles imported.