Old and New Releases from the Incredible Raphaëlle Guyot
4/28/2025
Showcasing wines from 2018-2023
We are very lucky here at Chambers Street Wines to receive some truly incredible wines from private collections. Today's offer allows for what I think is the best of both worlds: a large selection of wines from back vintages mixed in alongside some new releases all from Raphaëlle Guyot.
Like many others of her generation, Raphaëlle Guyot never intended to become a winemaker. It wasn’t until she was 18 and in business school in Paris that she tasted a bottle of Jo Landron’s Muscadet ‘Amphibolite’ that sparked her interest in wine. This intrigue had Raphaëlle traveling all over the world to learn more about wine. She then returned to Burgundy to study viticulture in Beaune, which included apprenticeships with Thibault Liger-Belair in Burgundy and Cyril Phal at Clos de Rouge Gorge in the Roussillon. After her studies, Raphaëlle decided to head back to her family roots in the Yonne, the region just south of Paris that encompasses Chablis. In a region that today is somewhat overlooked, Raphaëlle spent time understanding the long viticultural history of the area that was never quite restored after phylloxera.
Photo: MFW Wine Co.
Today, Raphaëlle looks to create not just a viticultural domaine but a polyculture farm with crop diversity and livestock. She farms 1.75 hectares of vines that are densely planted, spending the time to rehabilitate old parcels that are overgrown. She believes that organic farming with selected green cover crops in the vineyards produces exceptional fruit quality that will continue to improve over time. I have not been able to visit Raphaëlle before but Sam Ehrlich, my predecessor had and spoke about how, "The region is a series of rolling hills with steep slopes, most of it overgrown with grass. But where the soil had been turned over to plant vines, it was awash with the kind of broken limestone one finds on the slopes of Chablis." In addition to her vines, Raphaëlle purchases some fruit from the Auxerrois allowing to provide a fantastic array of grape varietals highlighting both Burgundy and the Loire, the two regions she finds herself in between.
Technical information aside, Raphaëlle is making wines of incredible character, energy and purity. We have not be able to showcase these beautiful wines in a while and we are excited to have enough quantity for an email blast! With that said, quantities here are still limited so grab them while you can!
-Hanna Krilov
