As for technique, he is a maverick. While 90% of Chablis is machine-harvested, he harvests everything by hand, a paramount factor in the quality of his wines. While most vintners make one blended cuvee from mixed sites for their villages wine, Patrick obsessively crafts no fewer than eight different villages-level wines, each giving a distinctive expression of terroir. In our tastings together, he touts them as the qualitative peers of his 1er Cru’s, and with good reason - they are extraordinary.
